CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARU !_•; 



Nyctalis asterophora, as shown in the illustration. It i- Qsual] 

 rather large, firm plant, distinguished from the following by the 

 subdistant, thick gills. The flesh of all parts when bruised turns 

 first reddish tlit'ii blackish, bul the red stain may aol appear in 

 old plants; this is to be expected because of the drying up of the 

 scanty juice which is supposed to cause this phenomenon where it 

 is exposed to the air. Peck, Mcllvaine and others have eaten it 

 and consider it fairly good. 



101. Russula densifolia Seer. (Edibli 

 Mycographie I. L833. 



Illustrationfl : Cooke. 111., PL 1017. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, Ni>. 608. 



Patouillard, Tab. Aualyt., No. 319. 



Hard. Mushrooms, Fi.us. l r>7 and l r>. L908. 



Kaufifman, Mich. Acad. Sci. Rep. 11. Pig. 1. op. p. 90, L909. 



PILEUS 5-12 cm. broad, somewhat firm, convex then depressed 

 in subinfundibuliform, margin a1 firsl incurved then elevated, dull 

 whitish at first, soon clouded with pale smoky-brown, withoul a 

 pellicle, usually subviscid, oven, pruinose when dry. FLESH com- 

 pact, thick, grayish-white, pale smoky in age, changing to reddish 

 when bruised, then blackish. GILLS uarrowly adnate to Bubdecur- 



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rent, rather narrow, thick, crowded then close, alternately long 

 and short, few forked, subvenose, whitish sunn dingy grayish, red- 

 dish -when bruised then black. STEM .">-i; cm. long, L.5-2.5 cm. thick. 

 stout, equal or tapering downward, rigid, spongj -"lid, whitish then 

 cinereous, -non dark ashy within, turning reddish Unit blackish 

 where bruised, obscurely wrinkled, glabrous or subpruinose. 

 SPORES globose, coarsely reticulate, 7-9x6-8 micr., white in mass. 

 STERILE CELLS on edge of gills, hyaline, slender, flexuous, 

 acuminate, 60x3-4 micr., abundant. TASTE slowly acrid in fn 

 plant. ODOR none. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose or solitary. <>n the ground in fron« 

 d'pvr woods among fallen Leaves. Ann Arbor, Detroit, Palmyra. 

 July-September. Usually rare, bu1 abundanl in August, 1912, in 

 n;d< woods at Ann Arbor. 



As pointed nut by Trek, the American plant is Blightly subvi» 

 ..a the rap but this character is easily overlooked. The visci< 

 is slight, even after rains. Ii comes nearesl t<> B. " ,; 



