Leucosporae 



granulated. Gills adnexed or slightly rounded, narrow behind, very Bussnia. 

 much crowded, equal, rarely forked, whitish, becoming either entirely 

 or here and there ochraceous-orange. Stem i3^ 2 in. long, 57 lines 

 thick, a little thickened at the base, rather rugulose, white, base ochra- 

 ceous. Flesh white, turning ochraceous and acrid when old. 



Spores 8-io/x diameter Massee. 



Allied to R. vesca. Known by the bright rose-colored, densely gran- 

 ular pileus and tuberculose margin. When old the pileus is almost en- 

 tirely ochraceous. Massee. 



Frequent in the West Virginia forests, 1881-1885. Chester county, 

 Pa., 1887-1890. In mixed woods. July to September. Mcllvaine. 



It differs from R. vesca in its cap being minutely granulated instead 

 of streaked, and in becoming acrid with age. 



The caps are of good quality, needing to be well cooked. 



FRA'GILES. 

 * Gills and spores white. 



R. eme'tica Fr. an emetic. (Plate XLIV, fig. 2, p. 184.) PileilS 

 3-4 in. broad, at first rosy then blood-color, tawny when old, sometimes 

 becoming yellow and at length (in moist places) white, at first bell- 

 shaped then flattened or depressed, polished, margin at length furrowed 

 and tubercular . Flesh white, reddish under tlie separable pellicle. Stem 

 spongy-stuffed, stout, elastic when young, fragile when older, even, 

 white or reddish. Gills somewhat free, broad, somewhat distant, shining 

 white. 



Handsome, regular, moderately firm, but fragile when full grown, 

 taste very acrid. Fries. 



Spores shining white, Fries; spheroid, echinulate, S-IO/A K.; 7/x. 

 W.G.S. 



Maryland, Miss Banning; New York, Peck, Rep. 22; Indiana, Illi- 

 nois, H. I. Miller. 



Said to act as its name implies as an emetic. Certainly poisonous. 

 Stevenson . 



Krapp says he has himself experienced rare inconveniences from eating 

 it. Preferred to others in Indiana and Illinois. H. I. Miller, 1898. 



The varying reports upon R. emetica are quoted above. In 1881, in 



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