CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS l." 



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This group is closely related to the Piperitea division of the genus 

 Lactarius. Some of the species, <•. g. /,'. delica, are \«-r\ Bimilar to 

 L. vellerius, L. deceptivus, etc., when the latter are dried out bj the 

 wind or dry weather and then lack the milk} juice The Compactae 

 are a very Datura] group, easily distinguishable. 



99. Russula delica Fr. (Edible 

 Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



[llustrations : Cooke, 111.. PL L068. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. ii<»7. 



Bresadola, Fung. Trid., Vol. 2, PI. 201. 



[bid, Fung. mang. e. vel., PI. 68. 



Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. L5, Fig. 1. 



Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. :>14. 



Peck, X. V. siaic Mus. Rep. 54, PI. 71. Fig. l :. (as /.'. 



brrriiH.s Pk.i. 



[bid, N. Y. state Mus. Rep. 13, PI. 2, Fig. 5-8 (as A', brevipes 

 Pk.). 



PILEUS 8-15 <ni. broad, firm, convex-umbilicate then depressed 

 lo infundibuliform, (full white, sometimes with rusty-brown stains, 

 unpolished, glabrous, pubescent or obscurely tomentose, even, dry, 

 margin a1 first involute not Btriate. FLESH compact, white or 

 whitish, not changing where bruised. GILLS subdecurrent, nar- 

 rowed behind, broader in the oiiddle, subdistant, or distant, thickish, 

 short and long alternating, U-w forked, white or whitish, edge often 

 distinctly greenish. STEM 2-5 cm. long, [.5-2 cm. thick, short, stout, 

 solid, equal or subequal or tapering down, white becoming dingy, 

 not turning blackish when bruised, glabrous or subtomentose above, 

 often with ,-i narrow pale-green zone at apex. SPORES glob* 

 9-10 (rarely 11 or 12) micr., tuberculate, white in mass. TASTE 

 mild to tardily bu1 weakly acrid. ODOB none. 



Gregarious, in sandy soil. In maple, birch, oak and coniferous 

 woods throughout the state; mosl abundant along the Greal Lakes 

 in conifer regions. July-October. Comn locally. 



Var. brevipes Pk. i /.'. brevipes Pk., X. Y. State Mus. Rep. 13, 

 1890), has been found ;it New Richmond. The gills are crowded 

 ami the pileus is smaller, i 6 cm. broad, li was found iii hard clay 

 soil, through which it pushed with difficulty. It i> apparently an 

 ecological variety conditioned by dry weather and hard soil. It Is 

 uncommon. 



