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Russula Integra. Fr. 

 The; Entire; Russula. Edible;. 



Integra, whole or entire. The pileus is three or four inches in diameter, 

 fleshy ; typically red, but changing color ; expanded, depressed, with a viscid 

 cuticle, growing pale. Margin thin, furrowed and tuberculate. Flesh white, 

 sometimes yellowish above. 



The stem is at first short and conical, then club-shaped or ventricose, some- 

 times three inches long and up to one inch thick ; spongy, stuffed, commonly 

 striate ; even, and shining white. 



The gills are somewhat free, very broad, sometimes three-fourths of an inch ; 

 equal or bifid at the stem, rather distant and connected by veins ; pallid or white, 

 at length light yellow, being powdered yellow with the spores. 



Although the taste is mild it is often astringent. One of the most changeable 

 of all species, especially in the color of the pileus, which, though typically red, is 

 often found inclining to azure-blue, bay-brown, olivaceous, etc. It occasionally 

 happens that the gills are sterile and remain white. Fries. 



The spores are spheroid, spiny, pale ochraceous. 

 R. integra so closely resembles 

 R. alutacea that to distinguish them 

 requires a knowledge of both 

 plants, and even then one may not 

 feel quite sure ; however, it matters 

 little as they are equally good. Its 

 powdery gills will help to distin- 

 guish R. integra from R. alutacea. 

 Found from July to October. 



Russula roseipes. (seer) Bres. 



The Rosy-Stem mld Russula. 

 Edible;. , 



Roseipes is from rosa, a rose ; 

 pes, a foot; so called because 

 of its rose-colored or pinkish 

 stem. 



The pileus is two to three inches 

 broad, convex, becoming nearly 

 plane, or slightly depressed; at 

 first viscid, soon dry, becoming 

 slightly striate on the margin ; 



Figure 151. Russula roseipes. Natural size. 



