Agaricacese 



Kussuia. base, adnate or slightly emarginate, many of them forked near the base, 

 a few short ones intermingled, white becoming yellowish. Stem 8-12 

 lines long, 5-6 lines thick, firm, solid, becoming spongy within, white. 



Spores elliptical, pale yellow, uninucleate or shining, 9x6. 5/x.. Flesh 

 white, taste mild, then bitterish. 



Dry hard ground in paths and wood roads. Canoga, N. Y. July. 



This species closely resembles pale forms of R. furcata, from which 

 it is separated by the absence of any silky micor and by the yellowish 

 color and elliptical shape of the spores and by the yellowish hue of the 

 lamellae. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa., September, 1898, to frost. Gravelly ground. Soli- 

 tary. Gills adnate. Identified as his species by Professor Peck. 



The slight bitterish taste disappears in cooking. It is edible and of 

 fair quality. 



R. aura'ta Fr. aurnm, gold. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, varying lemon- 

 yellow, orange and red, disk darker, fleshy, rigid, brittle however, hem- 

 ispherical then plane, disk not depressed, pellicle thin, adnate, viscid in 

 wet weather, margin even, and slightly striate only when old, but some- 

 times wrinkled. Flesh lemon-yellow under the pellicle, white below. 

 Stem 23 in. long, solid, firm, but spongy within, cylindrical, obso- 

 letely striate, white or lemon-yellow. Gills rounded free, connected by 

 veins, broad, equal, shining, never pulverulent, whitish inclining to light 

 yellow, but vivid lemon-yellow at the edge. Fries. 



West Virginia, 1881-1885; Pennsylvania, 1887-1898. In woods 

 under pines. July to October. Mcllvaine. 



Pileus sometimes depressed in center, very viscid when wet. 



A troop of this Russula upon brown wood mat is a pretty sight. Its 

 rich and brightly-colored cap attracts the eye from a distance. The 

 yellow edge of its gills is the distinctive mark of the species. 



The smell is pleasant, the taste slightly of cherry bark. 



Cooked it is one of the best Russulae. 



R. atropurpu'rea Pk. atre, black; purpurcus, purple. Dark pur- 

 ple Russula. PileilS 3-4 in. broad, at first convex, then centrally de- 

 pressed, glabrous, dark purple, blackish in the center, the margin even 

 or slightly striate. Flesh white, grayish or grayish-purple under the 

 separable pellicle, taste mild, odor of the drying plant fetid, very un- 



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