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Some of our specimens differ from the description in having a 

 yellowish brown piletis. 



Russula sororia Fr. 



SISTER RUSSULA 



Pileiis convex- becoming nearly plane, viscid when moist, striate 

 on the thin margin, gray, grayish brown, olive-brown or yellowish 

 brown, often darker in the center, flesh whitish, taste acrid ; lamellae 

 narrow, subdistant, adnate, many of them short, rarely forked, 

 whitish or pallid, the interspaces venose ; stem equal or slightly 

 tapering upward, white ; spores globose, white, .0003 of an inch 

 broad. 



Pileus 1-2.5 inches broad ; stem 1-2 inches long, 4-8 lines thick. 



Woods and groves. Albany and Suffolk counties. July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Similar in color and character to R. consobrina Fr. of 

 which it is thought by some to be a variety, but it is easily dis- 

 tinguished by its distinctly striate margin. R. pectinatoides 

 Pk. resembles this in color but it may be distinguished from it by 

 its mild or tardily and slightly acrid taste and its nearly equal 

 lamellae. 



A form with the pileus darker brown, ilesh cinereous under the 

 cuticle and stem becoming cinereous was found under chestnut trees 

 near Gansevoort, Saratoga co. It is referable to R. consobrina 

 intermedia Cke. 



Russula granulata Pk. 



GRANULATED RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Rep't 53. 1900. p. 843. 



Pileus convex becoming nearly plane or centrally depressed, vis- 

 cid when moist, rough with minute granules or squamules, tubercu- 

 late striate on the margin, dingy ochraceous or dingy yellow, tinged 

 with red or brown, flesh white or whitish, taste acrid; lamellae thin, 

 close, adnate, many forked at the base ; stem equal or abruptly con- 

 tracted at the top, glabrous, spongy within, whitish ; spores white, 

 subglobose, .0003 of an inch broad. 



Pileus 2-3 inches broad ; stem i-i .5 inches long, 6-8 lines thick. 



Woods. Ulster and Hamilton counties. August. 



In State Museum Report 39, page 57 this was regarded as a 

 variety ofR. foetens Fr. from which it differs in its granular 

 pileus, its closer and more narrow lamellae and in the absence of 



