80 MUSHROOMS. 



Red or Pink. 



tially attached to the stem, and its stem being 

 slightly stained with rosy red. It grows in 

 pine and hemlock woods, and is found in July 

 and August. (Edible.) 



RUSSULA LEPIDA = neat or elegant. 

 The Elegant Russula. 



Cap at first is a bright red, but becomes a 

 dull reddish-pink, paler at the disc, 3 inches 

 broad, dry, fleshy, convex; then expanded, 

 scarcely depressed, obtuse and polished, after- 

 ward cracked (rimose), and with minute scales 

 (squamulose) . The margin spreading and 

 rounded, obtuse, not striate. Stem about 3 

 inches long, from 1 to 1| inch thick, even, 

 solid, white, or rose color. Gills rounded be- 

 hind, rather thick, somewhat crowded, often 

 forked, connected by veins, white, often red at 

 edge. Taste mild. We found our specimen in 

 mixed woods. The stem was only tinged with 

 pink. (Edible.) 



LACTARIUS VOLEMUS = a kind of large pear. (From 



its shape.) 

 The Orange Brown Lactarius. 



Cap 3 to 5 inches broad, reddish-orange 

 color, becoming pale, compact, rigid, obtuse, 



