iACTARIUS. lOI 



R. alutacea. Fr. Tan colored Russula. 



Pileus, fleshy, expanded, with a viscid cuticle, growing 

 pale; margin thin, tuberculate-striate ; flesh white, pileus 

 flesh color to tan color. 



Gills, ventricose, free, connected with veins, equal, yellow, 

 ochraceous. 



Stem, blunt, surface longitudinal wrinkled, spongy within, 

 white, sometimes yellow. 



Taste mild, edible. 



Common in open woods. You can get specimens almost in every 

 woods after a rainy spell. June and July. 



R. pectinata. Fr. 



Pileus, convex, fragile, with a viscid pellicle, dirty white 

 or ochraceous, margin spreading, with fine striation or sulcate 

 striate, lastly tuberculous striate. 



Gills, equal, light yellow, adnate. 



Stem, straight, spongy, then more or less hollow, even, 

 smooth. 



The specific name is iroxn. peden, a comb, from the strite at the margin 

 being like the tooth of a comb. This species is generally found along 

 the roadside in fence corners. It is not a gay species ; the color is a 

 dirty yellow or brownish. 



Genus XXXV. I^ACTARIUS. 



Hymenophore continuous with the stem. Veil none, 

 except in some species the margin of pileus is bearded, Pileus 

 fleshy, of a vesiculose nature, generally depressed in the center. 

 Margin at first involute. Stem fleshy, often hollow when old, 

 gills milky, in nearly all the species the milk is at first white, 

 changing to sulphur yellow, red or violet on exposure to the 

 air, decurrent, with an acute edge ; trama subversiculose. 



