CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 1.-.7 



R. rosacea, etc., failed repeatedly; the fragile flesh and ochrac is, 



almost alutaceous gills are too distinctive. The maturing <»r 

 spores is sometinies slow and cam must be taken to ^-i ;i good 

 spore prim in these red species. All the collections which I have 

 referred here showed red on some or all of tin- >tems «.r each col- 

 lection. Their edibility was not tested. 



137. Russula palustris Pk. 

 X. V. State Ma-. Rep. •">::. L900. 



PILEUS t-7.5 cm. broad, fragile, snbglobose or hemispheric, then 

 convex or nearly plane, viscid, pellicle separable, obscurely tuber- 



cular-striate on margin, reddish-buff or purplish red es] tally on 



disk, glabrous. PLESH white, thin, tinged with the color <>r the 

 pileus under the pellicle. GILLS narrowed behind, broader in 

 front, cl«>se to subdistant, entire, whitish then yellowish, biter- 

 venose. STEM 3-7 cm. Ion-. 6 I'.' mm. thick, equal, glabrous, spongy- 

 stuffed tlion hollow, fragile, white or tinged red. SPORES bud- 

 globose, />"/' yellow in mass, 7.r>-10 unci-. tastk tardily acrid. 



Gregarious or scattered. Tn low woods or swamps. Marquette, 

 New Kichinond. Ann Arbor. August September, [nfrequent. 



Tho pileus is sometimes faintly glaucous. 



138. Russula aurantialutea Iviuff. 

 Mich. Acad. Sci. Rep. 11, p. 81. 1000. 



PILEUS 5-10 cm. broad, thin. Fragile, convex then piano-de- 

 pressed, yellow (citron to luteus), or nitli orange shades inter- 

 mingled, especially on the margin, slightly tubercular-striate, pel- 

 licle viscid, shining and somewhat separable for some distance. 

 FLESTT white, thin toward the margin, unchanged with age. 

 GILLS pale yellow, close, or subdistant a1 the outer extremity, equal 

 oi- a few shorter, narrowly adnate, seceding with age, broadest to- 

 ward front, often forked ;it the base, rarely elsewhere, interspi 



venose. STEM t-8 cm. ion--. 1.5-2 cm. thick, white, flesh concolor 

 and unchanged, subequal, glabrous, oven, spongy-stuffed. 8POR 5 

 ochraceous-yellow, subglobose, 8-9 micr. TASTE acrid in all its 

 parts, often very acrid. ODOB nol noticeable 



Solitary or scattered. On debris or forest mould in hemlock or 

 mixed woods of northern Michigan, in deciduous ^ Is in the south- 

 ern part of the state. July. August and September. Earlier in 

 southern Michigan. Infrequent 



