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spongy within, colored like the pileus or a little paler, sometimes 

 whitish at the base ; spores white, globose or subglobose, .0003-.0004 

 of an inch long, nearly or quite as broad. 



Pileus 1.5-3 inches broad; stem 2-3 inches long, 4-6 lines thick. 



Woods. Adirondack region. August and September. 



The brilliant red color of the pileus and stem make this one of 

 our most beautiful and attractive species of russula. The lamellae 

 have a few short ones intermingled and the edge often appears 

 floccose under a lens and red near the margin of the pileus. Pointed 

 cystidia are numerous. 



Russula pectinatoides Pk. 



PECTENLIKE RUSSULA 

 PLATE 105, FIG. 6-10 



Pileus thin, broadly convex becoming nearly plane or centrally de- 

 pressed, viscid when moist, widely tuberculose striate on the margin, 

 dingy straw color, brownish, yellowish brown or cinereous brown, 

 sometimes darker in the center, flesh white, grayish white under 

 the separable pellicle, taste mild or slightly and tardily acrid ; 

 lamellae thin, equal or with an occasional short one, some forked 

 at the base, adnate, white becoming pallid ; stem equal or nearly so, 

 even, glabrous, spongy within, white ; spores whitish, subglobose, 

 .00025-0003 of an inch long, nearly or quite as broad. 



Pileus 1-3 inches broad ; stem 1-2 inches long, 3-4 lines thick. 



Grassy ground in groves and woods. Albany and Suffolk 

 counties. July and August. 



Specimens of this species were formerly reported as R. pecti- 

 n a t a Fr. from which it seems best to separate them as they differ 

 in their milder taste, the grayish color of the flesh under the cuticle, 

 the adnate lamellae and the even stem. From R. sororia Fr. 

 the species differs in its milder taste. In the character of the lamellae 

 it is related to that species and might with almost equal propriety 

 be placed in the same subgenus with it. It is edible. 



Russula simillima Pk. 



VERY SIMILAR RUSSULA 



State Mus. Rep't 24. 1872. p. 75. 



Pileus hemispheric or convex becoming plane or slightly de- 

 pressed in the center, viscid when young or moist, striate on the 



