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Pilens 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches loni^, 6-10 lines thick. 



Woods. Albany, Madison. Rensselaer and Suffolk counties. July 

 and August. 



Distinguished from other members of this subgenus by its smooth 

 polished pileus and its very acrid taste. Var. sapida Cke. 

 (R. atro purpurea Krombh.) is said to be mild in flavor, but 

 otherwise like the species. I have not seen it. 



Russula squalida nom. no v. 



SQUALID RUSSULA 



Russula a t r o p u r pure a Pk. State Mus. Rep't 41. 1888. p. 75. 



Pileus convex becoming centrally depressed, glabrous, dark pur- 

 ple, often blackish in the center, even or slightly striate on the mar- 

 gin when old, flesh white, grayish or grayish purple under the 

 cuticle, taste mild, odor in drying fetid ; lamellae subdistant, a few 

 forked at the base, occasionally a short one intervening, white be- 

 coming yellowish, i>rownish where wounded ; stem equal, glabrous, 

 solid or spongy within, white, brownish where bruised; spores pale 

 ochraceous with a salmon tint, subglobose, .0003-.0004 of an inch 

 long, nearly as broad. 



Pileus 3-4 inches broad ; stem 2-t, inches long, 5-8 lines thick. 



Margin of woods. Saratoga county. July. 



In the dried state this russula has a peculiar dingy and un- 

 attractive appearance. It is very distinct in the unusual color of 

 the spores and the brownish hue assumed where wounded. A g a r - 

 icus a t r o ji u r p u r e a Krombh. being a s])ecies of Russula, it 

 becomes necessary to give a new name to the plant to which this 

 specific name was formerly applied by me. 



Russula ochrophylla Pk. 



OCIIERY GILLED RLISSULA 



State Mus. Rep't 50. iXcjj. p. 100; State Mus. ATem. 3. igoo. p. 150, pi. 54, 



fig. 8-T4. 



Pileus firm, convex becoming nearly plane and umbilicate or 

 centrally dei)ressed, dry, unpolished, even on the margin, dark red 

 or purplish red, often a little darker in, the center, flesh white, red 

 under the adnate cuticle, taste mild; lamellae subdistant, adnate, 

 nearly entire, a few forked at the base, yellowish becoming bright 

 ochraceous buff, dusted by the spores, the interspaces somewhat 

 venose; stem equal or nearly so, solid or spongy within, reddish 



