Leucosporee 



or ventricose, as much as 3 in. long, up to I in. thick, spongy-stuffed, Russuia. 

 commonly stout, even, shining white. Gills somewhat free, very broad, 

 up to % in., equal or bifid at the stem, somewhat distant, connected 

 by veins, pallid- white, at length light yellow, somewhat Powdered yellow 

 with the spores. 



Taste mild, often astringent. The most changeable of all species, 

 especially in the color of the pileus which is typically red, but at the 

 same time inclining to azure-blue, bay-brown, olivaceous, etc. Some- 

 times the gills are sterile and remain white. Fries. 



Spores ellipsoid-spheroid or spheroid echinulate, globose, rough, 

 8-9/u, C.B.P.; 9-io/t diameter, pale ochraceous. Massee. 



It is difficult to separate R. integra from R. alutacea. The spores 

 usually show upon the gills as pale dull yellow powder. It is of equal 

 excellence. 



R. decolo'rans Fr. de and coloro, to color. Pileus 3-5 in. broad, 

 color various, at first orange-red, then light yellow and becoming pale, 

 fleshy, spherical then expanded and depressed, remarkably regular, 

 viscid when moist, thin and at length striate at the margin. Flesh 

 white, but becoming somewhat cinereous when broken, and more or less 

 variegated with black spots when old. Stem elongated, 35 in., cylin- 

 drical, solid, but spongy within, often wrinkled-striate , white then be- 

 coming cinereous especially within. Gills adnexed, often in pairs, thin, 

 crowded, fragile, white then yellowish. 



Taste mild. Colors changeable according to a fixed rule, but not 

 variable. The gills are not ochraceous-pulverulent as in R. integra, nor 

 shining and pure yellow as in R. aurata, etc. Fries. 



Spores yellow, 8.3/A Morgan. 



New York, Peck, 23d Rep. Angora, West Philadelphia, Pa., 1897, 

 in mixed woods. August to October. Mcllvaine. 



Esculent and of good quality. Morgan. 



Meals of it make one regret its scarcity. 



K. basifurca'ta Pk. forked near stem. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, firm, 

 convex, umbilicate, becoming somewhat funnel form, glabrous, slightly 

 viscid when moist, the thin pellicle scarcely separable except on the 

 margin, dingy-white, sometimes tinged with yellow or reddish-yellow, 

 the margin nearly even. Lamellae rather close, narrowed toward the 



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