214 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 9 
in the center, slimy-viscid when wet, the pellicle not easily separable, glabrous; margin 
pectinate-sulcate half way to the disk, thin: context next to the pellicle tinged like the surface, 
unpleasant and slowly but decidedly acrid in taste, with a slight odor like R. foetens when 
fresh, the odor becoming more pungent in drying and persisting in dried specimens for some 
months; lamellae white, equal, mostly simple, venose-connected, narrowed toward the stipe, 
close; stipe white, rarely with a touch of umber at the base; often tapering downward, firm, 
becoming spongy within, 3.5-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. thick: spores white, broadly elliptic, 
echinulate, 6-7 7-8 yu. 
TYPE Locality: Europe. 
Hazrat: In grassy places in deciduous woods of oak, chestnut, beech, and maple. 
. DistrRiButTiIon: New Vork west to Ohio, Missouri, and Washington and south to Mississippi; also 
- ee ee Britz. Hymen. Sudb. Russ. f. 50, 138; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 1101; Gill. Champ. 
Fr. pl. 630; Lanzi, Funghi Mang. #1. 47, f. 3, a,b, c; Noulet & Dassier, Traité Champ. pl. 15, f. A, B; 
Pat. Tab. Fung. pl. 620; Richon & Roze, Atl. Champ. #1. 41, f. 9-12. 
Exsiccati: Sydow, Myc. Mar. 3312. 
34. Russula foetens (Pers.) Fries, Epicr. Myce. 359. 1838. 
Agaricus foetens Pers. Obs. Myc. 102. 1796. 
Russula foetentula Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 85. 1907. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, then fragile, subglobose, becoming plane to slightly depressed in the 
center, 7.5-12.5 cm. broad; surface honey-colored or dull-buff to reddish-brown, viscid when 
moist, pellicle separable part way to the disk, glabrous; margin widely striate-tuberculate 
or sulcate, thin and incurved at first: context whitish, except next to the cuticle, where it is 
yellowish, acrid to slowly acrid and unpleasant, the odor at first like bitter almonds, then fetid; 
lamellae white, becoming yellowish with age, reddish-brown where bruised, some short ones 
present, many forking next to the stipe and a few part way to the margin, interspaces venose,. 
exuding drops of water when young, rather close, broad, narrowed toward the stipe, adnexed; 
stipe whitish, becoming yellowish or umber where handled or with age, stuffed to hollow, 
equal, 4-8 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. thick: spores whitish to cream-colored, subglobose, slightly 
echinulate, 7-8 X 9-10 u. 
‘Type Locality: Europe. 
Hasirat: In mixed woods and bushy places. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Maine to Alabama and west to Ohio and Michigan; also in Europe. 
ILLusTRatIons: Bull. Herb. Fr. pl. 292; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 1046; Fries, Sv. Aet!. Svamp. 
pl. 40; Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 179 (612); Hard, Mushrooms f. 147; Krombh. Abbild. #1. 70, f. 1-6; 
Mycologia 4: pl. 76, f. 7; Ricken, Blatterp. Deutschl. p1. 19, f. 4. 
Exsiccati: Herpell, Prap. Hutpilze 50. 
35. Russula pectinatoides Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 43. 
1907. 
Piles thin, broadly convex, becoming nearly plane or centrally depressed, 2.5-7.5 cm. 
broad; surface chamois-colored to dingy-straw-colored or yellowish-brown to cinnamon- 
brown, darker in the center, viscid when moist, glabrous; margin widely tuberculate-striate: 
context grayish-white under the separable pellicle, otherwise white, mild or slightly and tardily 
acrid; lamellae white, becoming creamy, fulvous where bruised, mostly equal, some forking 
next to the stipe, adnate, thin; stipe white, discoloring yellowish-brown where bruised or in 
drying, glabrous, spongy within, 2.5-5 em. long, 5-10 mm. thick: spores whitish, subglobose, 
6-8 uw in diameter. 
TyPE Locality: New York. 
Hasrirat: Grassy ground in groves and woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vermont to Michigan and south to Virginia and North Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: pl. 105, f. 6-10. 
36. Russula granulata Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 53: 843. 
1900. 
Pileus convex, becoming nearly plane or depressed in the center, 5-7.6 cm. broad; surface 
buff or chamois-colored to burnt-umber in the center, viscid when moist, sometimes obscurely 
squamulose, again prominently granular-squamulose, and sometimes rimose-squamose; mar- 
