CLASSIFICATION OP AOARH 



wrinkled. SPORES globose, \«-i'.\ minutely rough, 7 :i tnicr. (incl. 

 apiculus), white in mass. OYSTIDIA very few. BASIDIA aboul 

 40x!i m iff. TASTE tardily and slightly bitterish-acrid or di 

 ably bitter. ODOB faintly aromatic or none 



Gregarious. <>n the ground in open oak-maple woods. Ann 

 Arbor. August. Rare. 



Related to R. virescens by its rigidity and the aature of the Bur- 

 i'iiir of the pileus. The surface is pulverulent, Bomewhai rimose in 

 age, sofl to the touch and under the microscope is Been to in- com- 

 posed of slender, hyaline, erecl cystidia-like hairs. A Bubhymen- 

 inin is lacking. Ii lias a Bhort, Btoul stem and relatively much 

 broader cap. It differs from R. ochraleuca in size and in the thick 

 flesh of the cap, in thai the flesh of tin- stem does aol become ashv 

 when bruised, as well as in the i»iticr taste and the anpolished pileus. 

 R. granulosa Cke. is said to have a granular stem and pileus, ami 

 many cystidia in the hymenium according to Biassee. h is far from 

 belonging to the Fragiles where Fries placed A', ochraleuca. /.'. 

 ijninnliita l'k. is said to be tubercular-striate on the margin of the 

 cap and is smaller. The gills are often abundantly forked toward 

 the stem. 



108. Russula lepida l'r. (mm Bres.) (Edible) 



Epicrisis, 1S3G-3S. 



Illustrations: Pries, Sverig. Swamp.. PI. 59, form minor. 

 Cooke. 111.. PI. 1(171'. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 620. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. Hi. Fig. 4. 



Hard. Mushrooms. Fig. II!). PI. L88, L908. (DoubtfuL) 

 Gibson. Edible Toadstools, etc.. PI. L2, p. 131, 1903. (Doubt- 

 ful.) 

 Atkinson, Mushrooms, PI. 36, Pig. 3, p. 126, L900. (Doubtful.) 



PILEUS 4-10 cm. broad, rigid, convex, then expanded depressed, 

 cuticle adnate and disappearing on disk, unpolished, *"<>>i dry, i 

 red to pale blood-red, fading, <lisk Boon pallid or variegated with 

 paler yellowish-reddish hues, sometimes rimulose-cracked or ruj 

 lose on disk, margin obtuse, not striate. FLESH compact, white 

 or reddish under the cuticle, thick, abruptly thin on margin. < ; 1 1 I S 

 narrowed behind and narrowly adnate or almosl free, close, 

 narrow, broader and rounded in front, white then whitish (albu 

 few shorter, occasionally forked. STEM l 7 cm. long, l 2 cm. th 



