﻿370 Peck : New Species of 



RUSSULA POLVPHYLLA. 



Pileus convex and centrally depressed or subinfundibuliform, 

 glabrous, somewhat areolate, pale flesh color, odor strong, taste 

 mild ; lamellae numerous, narrow, close, adnate or subdecurrent, 

 dingy flesh color ; stem equal, hollow, colored like the pileus ; 

 spores subglobose, about 7.5/* long, 6-7.5 f x broad. 



Pileus 7.5-12.5 cm. broad; stem 5-7.5 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. 

 thick. 



Woods. July. Earle. 



RUSSULA ALBIDULA. 



Pileus broadly convex or nearly plane, glabrous, white, even 

 on the margin, flesh white, taste acrid ; lamellae moderately close, 

 adnate or slightly decurrent, some of them forked at or near the 

 stem, white, the interspaces venose ; stem equal, even, solid, white ; 

 spores subglobose, 7.5-10/^ long, 6-7.5 P broad. 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm - broad; stem 2.5-3.8 cm. long, 8-12 mm. 

 thick. 



Pine woods. November. Earle. 



The whole plant is white when fresh, but in dried specimens 

 the pileus and lamellae are sometimes tinged with yellow. The 

 species may be separated from R. lactea by its acrid taste, from R- 

 virginca by its acrid taste and larger spores and from R. anomt 

 by the even margin of the pileus. 



xla 



Omphalia eximia. 



Pileus thin, infundibuliform or deeply umbilicate, glabrous, 

 white, becoming grayish-white in drying, the thin margin spread- 

 ing or deflexed ; lamellae rather narrow, subdistant, very decurrent, 

 white ; stem slender, equal or slightly enlarged above, glabrous, 

 hollow, white ; spores subglobose, 4-5 u broad. 



thick. 



Pileus 1.2-3.2 cm. broad; stem 25-5 cm. long, 2-3 



mm- 



Decaying wood. July. Earle. 

 The 



.-— - r rj — - , ._sd to O. atomphalos. In that 



species the pileus in the dried specimens is said to be brownish-re • 

 In this, the pileus and stem are grayish white and the lamellae are 

 dingy ochraceous-buff. 



Pants xigrifolius. 



Pileus 1-2 cm. broad, thin, dimidiate, sessile, dry, pulverulent 



