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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



It is very acrid to the taste, and because of this acridity it is usually thought 

 to be poisonous, but Captain Mcllvaine says he does not hesitate to cook it either 

 by itself or with other Russuhe. It is found very generally in the state and is 

 quite plentiful in the woods about Chillicothe, from July to October. 



Russula purpurina. Quel & Schuli 

 The Purple Russula. Edible. 



Figure 156. Russula purpurina. Two-thirds natural size. Caps rosy-pink to light-yellow. Gills yellowish 



in age. 



Purpurina means purple. The pileus is fleshy, margin acute, subglobose, ther* 

 plane, at length depressed in the center, slightly viscid in wet weather, not striate. 

 often split, pellicle separable, rosy-pink, paling to light-yellow. 



('.ills are crowded in youth, afterward subdistant. white, in age yellowish, 

 reaching the stem, not greatly narrowed behind, almost equal, not forked. 



The stem is stuffed, spongy, very variable, cylindrical, attenuated above, 



