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and R. puellari s, it seems better to us to retain it as a distinct species. 

 It is not common in our state, having been collected in Albany and Saratoga 

 counties only. Its distinguishing characters are its mild taste, its rosy 

 cap, which is commonly dry but slightly striate on the margin, its 

 gills changing from whitish to yellow or subochraceous and being slightly 

 attached to the stem, and its stem which is slightly stained with rosy red. 



From R. a 1 u t a c e a it may be separated by its smaller size, more narrow 

 and slightly attached gills and by its less highly colored gills and spores. 

 From R. p u e 1 1 a r i s, which it resembles in size, it may be distinguished by 

 not having the center of the cap more highly colored than the rest and by 

 the rosy tint of the stem. In the European plant the stem is said to be 

 sprinkled with a rosy mealiness or pruinosity, but in our plant the color 

 appears to be in the stem itself. 



The cap is i to 2 inches broad ; the stem is 1.5 to 2 inches long and 3 to 4 

 lines thick. The plants grow in woods of pine and hemlock and have been 

 collected in July and August. The flesh is tender and agreeable in flavor. 



Russula ochrophylla Pk. 

 OcHERV GILLED RUSSULA 



PLATE 54, fig. 8-14 



Pileus firm, convex, becoming nearly plane or slightly depressed in the 

 center, even or rarely very slightly striate on the margin when old, purple 

 or dark purplish red, flesh white, purplish under the adnate cuticle, taste 

 mild ; lamellae entire, a few of them forked at the base, subdistant, adnate, 

 at first yellowish, becoming bright, ochraceous buff when mature, dusted by 

 the spores, the interspaces somewhat venose ; stem equal or nearly so, solid 

 or spongy within, reddish or rosy tinted, paler than the pileus ; spores 

 bright, ochraceous buff, globose, verruculose, .0004 of an inch broad. 



The ochery gilled russula is a large, fine species but not a common one. 

 It differs but little in color and size from the European pungent russula, 

 Russula cl r i m e i a, but it is easily distinguished from it by its mild taste. 



The cap is dry, 2 to 4 inches broad, convex or a little depressed in the 

 center, purple or purplish red, the white flesh purplish under the cuticle, 

 which, however, is not easily separable. 



