BKPOBT OF THE STATE B0TA.NI8T 1S9 



Russula virescens Fr. 

 Gkeenish IluasuLA. 



Plate 31. 



Pileus at first nearly globose, thoa expanded and convex or 

 centrally depressed, tirni, dry, adorned with small llocculont 

 patches or warts, greenish, sometimes tinged with yellow ; lamel- 

 lae modera'.ely close, free or nearly so, white ; stem short, firm, 

 white ; spores nearly globose, slightly roughened, white, .UUU:^4 

 to .0o{)3 in. broad. 



The Greenish russula is quite distinct and easily recognized by 

 its ^reen or grayish-green and warty cap. In the young plant 

 this is rounded or almost globular, but it soon becomes convex 

 and somolimos when mature it may even be centrally depressed. 

 Its surface is dry, not viscid as in some other greenich species, 

 and it is broken up into small scales or wart like patches. The 

 margin in the typical form is even, but specimens olton occur in 

 which it is marked with impressed lines or striations as in figures 

 3 and 4. The margin of the exi)aiided ca|) often becomes split. 

 The ilosh is white and has a mild taste. 



The gi-ls arc white or whitish. They are narrow at the inner 

 extremity and barely reach the stem. Generally some of them 

 arc forked and often a few shorter ones intervene between the 

 long ones. 



The stem is commonly shorter than the diameter of the cap. 

 It i: smooth, white and solid or somewhat softer and spongy in 

 the center. 



Cap two to four inches broad, stem one to two inches long, 

 one-half to three-fourths of an inch thick. 



In grassy grounds, groves or thin woods. July and August. 



A green color iu mushrooms is very rare, but in the genus 

 Bussula there are so.'oral species that exhibit it or tin approach 

 to it But these all lack the wart-like adornments that charac- 

 terize the Greenish russulii, and therefore need not be mistaken 

 for it. The color in our [ilant is not a bri.i'ht green, but one 

 more or less mingled with gray or yellowish. Sometimes the 

 central part of the cap is more highly colored than the margin 

 and sometimes it is paler, exhibiting hero the yellowish tints. 



Vittadini places this among the most safe and delicate species 

 of Russula. Iloquos speaks highly of .'y,and says it can be eaten 



