CLASSIFICATION OP AGARH 



Section II. Taste acrid. Spore-mass cream-color, yellowish, 

 ochraceous to alutaceous. 



134. Russula sanguinea IV. /.'. 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111.. PL L020 (as /.'. rosea). 



Michael, Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. II (as /.'. rosacea). 



PILEUS '■'><> cm. broad, rather firm al ftrstf, subfragile, convex 

 plane or depressed, rosy-red, tfiscid, margin acnte and thin, pellicle 

 subadnate, easily separable on margin and tubercular-striate. 

 FLESH rather thin, white, red under the pellicle. GILLS Blightly 

 adnate, rinse to subdistant, equal, qo1 broad, creamy -White. STEM 

 4-6 cm. long, subequal or tapering down, often eccentric, whiU or 

 tinged rosy-red, spongy-stuffed then cavernous, rather fragile, glab- 

 rous, oven. SPORES creamy-white in mass. TASTE tardily bul 

 truly acrid. 



• Iregarious. On the ground among grass in frondose woods. Ann 

 Arbor. September-* October. Infrequent. 



Tlic plants referred here are I', rosaa a in the sense of Romell, and 

 R. sanguinea according to most of the modern French mycologists. 

 They arc distinguished by the cream color of the spores and gills. 

 The uills are not decurrenl ;is they are supposed t<> be in />'. rosacea, 

 lint the stem is often eccentric as that species is described by Fries. 

 Bresadola, Ma ire, etc., conceive I', rosacea Vv. as a planl with pure 

 white gills and spores. Our plant agrees with ;i species, common 

 around Stockholm, whose gills are usually creamy-white, Ii was 

 placed by Fries among the rigid forms bul is almost too fragile. 

 It is not large and except for the color of the spores small forms 

 mighl be mistaken for R. fragilis. 



135. Russula veternosa Fr. 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustrations: Bresadola, Fungh. mang. e. ve\., PI. 75. 



Cooke, ill.. PI. 1033. 



PILEUS 5-7.5 cm. broad, convex then expanded, with a somewhat 

 separable pellicle, indistinctly striate on the margin, deep roj 

 i like //. emetica), viscid when moist. FLESH white, red nnder 

 cuticle, <:ild.s white at first, then straw-color or pah 



