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when mature: context rather firm, red next to the cuticle, otherwise white, acrid; lamellae 
white, then more or less rust-colored, especially where bruised, sometimes a few short ones 
intermixed, acute and forking at the inner ends, rounded and broad at the outer ends, inter- 
veined, rather close; stipe white or with a few rust-colored spots, equal, firm, then spongy, 
4.5-6 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. thick: spores white, elliptic, strongly echinulate, 7-8.7 X 8-104. 
Type collected in wet woods of oak and chestnut at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New 
York, August 3, 1912, Gertrude S. Burlingham 85-1912 (herb. Burlingham). 
DisTR1BuTION: Long Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey. 
48. Russula paxilloides Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 341. 1902. 
Pileus fleshy, expanded, subdepressed, 5-9 cm. in diameter; surface white on the disk, 
more or less cinnabar-red toward the margin, somewhat viscid, glabrous; margin entire: 
context white, unchanging, very acrid; lamellae white or creamy-yellow, equal, anastomosing, 
subsinuate, broad, close; stipe white, equal, smooth, spongy-stuffed, 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-3 
em. thick: spores white, subglobose, slightly echinulate, 7 X 9 u. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Palo Alto, California. 
Hasrrat: In beds of decaying oak leaves in woods. 
DistrRiBution: Known only from the type locality. 
49. Russula Queletii Fries; Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 185. 1872. 
Agaricus ruber Fries, Syst. Myce. 1:58. 1821. Not A. ruber Schaeff. 1774. 
Russula rubra Fries, Epicr. Myc. 354. 1838. 
Pileus compact, convex, then plane, 2.5-8 cm. broad; surface Indian-lake or dark- 
violaceous, paler on the margin, viscid when wet, glabrous; margin slightly striate: context 
firm, red-purple next to the pellicle, otherwise white, acrid, without special odor; lamellae 
white, becoming yellowish with age or in drying, some shorter, some forking, sometimes with 
drops of water which in drying stain the surface bluish-gray; stipe violaceous-purple, pruinose, 
spongy within, 5 cm. long, up to 1.2 em. thick: spores white, subglobose, echinulate, 8-9 » in 
diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: France. 
Hasirat: On the ground in spruce or pine woods. 
DistTRIBUTION: Vermont and Washington; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Fries, Sv. Aetl. Svamp. #1. 49 (as R. rubra); Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 633; Lucand, 
Champ. Fr. pl. 44; Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 1: pl. 24, f. 6. 
XII. Ochroleucae. Pileus somewhat fragile; pellicle not easily separable; surface yellow 
or white tinged with yellow, usually viscid when wet (dry in R. anomaia), glabrous; margin 
even, or becoming striate when mature: context white, unchanging, acrid, without special 
odor; lamellae equal, rarely forking: spores white. 
50. Russula ochroleuca Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: 102. 1796. 
Pileus fleshy, becoming plane or depressed, 5-7 cm. broad; surface luteous, fading, with 
a thin, closely adnate pellicle, polished; margin even, remotely striate when old: context 
acrid; lamellae white, then pallid, nearly equal, rounded behind, free, broad; stipe white to 
cinereous, firm, spongy within, reticulate-rugose, 2-3 cm. long: spores white, ovate, papillate, 
7 » in diameter. 
‘Tyre LocaLity: Europe. 
Hasitat: In moist places in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Alabama; also in Europe 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Cooke, Brit. Fungi 9l. (049; Gill. Ch . Fr. pl. 626; 
pl. 7; Ricken, Blatterp. Deutschl. 1. 28 f. 7. Po ees Nae ae: meee 
51. Russula Raoultii Quél. Assoc. Fr. Av. Sci. Compte Rendu 14?: 
449. 1886. 
Pileus broadly convex, then plane or slightly centrally depressed, 3-6 cm. broad; surface 
straw-yellow or massicot-yellow, viscid, glabrous; margin even or at length very faintly striate: 
context pure-white, unchanging, somewhat tardily peppery; lamellae white, some short ones 
intermingled, rarely forking next to the stipe, interspaces slightly venose, narrow, 2-6 mm. 
