164 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



ochraceous, subdistant, mostly equal, broadest in front, ventricose, 

 narrowly adnate or almost free, few forked, interspaces venose. 

 STEM wbite and rosy-sprinkled, stuffed then cavernous, equal or 

 tapering upward, even, 2.5-5 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick. SPORES 

 ochraceous, globose, echinulate, 8-10 micr. TASTE mild. ODOR 

 none or pleasant. 



Solitary or scattered. In mixed woods, but usually under coni- 

 fers. Only found in the northern part of the state. July and 

 August. 



A middle-sized to small plant, fragile, and with a rosy mealiness 

 on the stem. This last is quite characteristic of the species. It 

 occurs under spruces and balsams in moist places. It is quite dis- 

 tinct from R. puellaris Fr. to which Fries, who had never seen 

 Secretin's plant, referred it as a variety. 72. purpurina also has a 

 rosy-sprinkled stem, but is very viscid and more brilliant shining 

 red on the cap. Feck (Rep. 51, p. 307) says the stem is not rosy- 

 sprinkled in his plants, but that the color resides in the stem; he 

 does not seem to have had the typical plant. 



147. Russula puellaris Fr. 



Monographia, 1863. 



Illustrations : Cooke, 111., PL 1065. 



Bresadola, Fung. Trid., Vol. I, PI. 64. 

 Ricken, Bliitterpilze, PI. 17, Fig. 2. 



PILEUS 2-4 cm. broad, very thin, convex then piano-depressed, 

 viscid, tubercular-striate on the margin, livid-purplish or livid- 

 brownish, then sometimes yellowish. FLESH white at first, -soon 

 watery subtranslucent, fragile. GILLS pallid white to pale yellow, 

 watery honey colored in age, equal, thin, subventricose, narrowed 

 behind and adnexed, interspaces venose. STEM whitish, then 

 watery honey-colored toward base, spongy-stuffed, soon cavernous, 

 soft and fragile, subequal or subclavate at base, 4-5 cm. long, 7-10 

 mm. thick. SPORES subglobose, echinulate, pale yellow, 6-8 micr. 

 TASTE mild or slightly acrid. ODOR none. 



Found in low, moist places in conifer or mixed woods of Europe. 

 It has not yet been reported from Michigan with certainty. I have 

 given Bresadola's description as that of a typical plant, which is 

 verified by my notes of the Stockholm plants. I have not seen the 

 typical Swedish plant in this country, and Peck's specimens were 

 evidently not typical as he says no yellowish stains occur in the 

 stem. The stem soon becomes soft and then develops this charac- 



