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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE .END OTHERWISE 



rosy-red variously modified by pink, orange or ochraceous hues, sometimes 

 becoming paler with age; taste mild. 



The gills are moderately close, nearly entire, rounded behind and slightly 

 adnexed. ventricose, whitish becoming yellow. 



The stem is one to three inches long, slightly tapering upward, stuffed or 

 somewhat cavernous, white tinged with red. The spores are yellow, round. 

 Peck, 51 R. 



This planj: is widely distributed from Maine to the West. It grows best in 

 pine and hemlock woods, but sometimes found in mixed woods. It is found in 

 July and August. 



FlGUKS 152. Kussula fragilis. 



Russula fragilis. Vr. 

 The Tender Russula. 



Fragilis means fragile. 



The pileus is rather small, flesh-color or red, or reddish ; thin, fleshy only at 

 the disk; at first convex and often umbonate, then plane, depressed; cuticle thin, 

 becoming pale, viscid in wet weather, margin tuherculate-striate. 



The gills are thin, ventricose, white, slightly adnexed. equal, crowded, some- 

 times slightly eroded at the edge. The spores are minutely echmulate, 8-iox8/*. 



The stem is stuffed, hollow, shining white. 



