DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI, ARRANGED 

 ACCORDING TO COLOR OF CAP 



ONLY. 



MUSHROOMS WITH RED OR PINK COLORED CAP. 



The genus Russula probably contains the 

 largest number of mushrooms with reddish 

 caps, the word Russula meaning reddish. 



RUSSULA EMETICA = a vomit. 

 The Nauseating Russula. 



Cap bright blood red, at first rosy, then blood 



color, tawny when old, 3 to 4 inches broad, 



first bell-shaped, then flattened or depressed, 



polished, margin at length grooved (sulcate), 



flesh white, reddish under the cuticle. Stem 



1J to 3 inches long, § of an inch thick, white 



or with a reddish hue, spongy, stuffed, stout, 



elastic when young, fragile when old, even, 



tapering slightly upward. Gills free, broad, 



rather distant, white. 



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