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This lactarius closely resembles the preceding in size and shape, but ii 

 differs decidedly in the color of its cap and stem, and in having the latter 

 hollow, h resembles the sooty lactarius, L. lignyotus Fr., in color, 

 but differs from it in having the stem short, the gills wide apart and wounds 

 not changing color. In sonic specimens the center ol the cap is furnished 

 with a small umbo or papilla and the surface is wrinkled. It also has an 

 unpolished appearance caused by a pruinosity similar to that of tin- preced- 

 ing species, but of a sooty brown color. The margin is thin and olten wavy 

 or somewhat lobed. The gills are so nearly like those of the preceding 

 species that they need no farther description. The plants grow in woods 

 and open places from fuly to September. In flavor and edibility the 

 species is very similar to the distant gilled lactarius. In nearly all the 

 species of this genus that I have tried, the flesh is firm but brittle and 

 the flavor not of a high order. 



Russula roseipes (Seer.) Brcs. 

 Rosy stemmed Russula 



PLATE 54, fig. 1-7 



Pileus convex, becoming nearly plane or slightly depressed, at first 

 viscid, soon dry, becoming slightly striate on the thin margin, rosy red, vari- 

 ously modified by pink, orange or ochraceous hues, sometimes becoming 

 paler with age, taste mild ; lamellae moderately close, nearly entire, rounded 

 behind and slightly adnexed, ventricose, whitish becoming yellow ; stem 

 slightly tapering upward, stuffed or somewhat cavernous, white tinged with 

 red ; spores ochraceous yellow, globose or subglobose, .0003 to .0004 of 

 an inch broad. 



The rosy stemmed russula is a good example of the close relation that 

 exists between some species of this genus, and of the difficult)' of assigning 

 satisfactory limits to species. This russula was first described by Secretan, 

 who considered it a variety of Russula alu tac e a and named it Rus- 

 sula alutacea roseipes. It was afterward raised to specific rank by 

 Bresadola and was accepted as a good species by Saccardo in Sylloge. Still 

 later it was reduced again to varietal rank by Massee, who considered it a 

 variety of Russula puellaris, and named it Russula p u e 11 ar i s 

 roseipes. Though having [joints of resemblance to both I\. alutacea 



