Aguricacese 



Bnssuia. close, reaching the stem, some of them forked, venose-connected, white, 

 then yellowish. Stem equal, solid, colored like the pileus except the 

 extremities which are usually white. Spores globose, nearly smooth, 

 7-6/x, in diameter; flesh of the pileus white, red under the cuticle, taste 

 mild. 



Plant 2 in. high. Pileus 1.5-2 in. broad. Stem 3-6 lines thick. 

 Dry ground in woods. Catskill mountains. July. 



The minute colored granules, which give the pileus a soft pruinose 

 appearance, are easily rubbed off on paper, and water put upon the 

 fresh specimens is colored by them. Peck, 24th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



New York, Peck, 24th and 5oth Rep. ; West Virginia, 1882-1885 ; Mt. 

 Gretna, Pa., solitary in mixed woods. July to September. 1897-1898. 

 Mcllvaine. 



It is on a par with most Russulae. 



R. ochra'cea Fr. ochra, a yellow earth. Mild. Pileus about 3 in. 

 across. Flesh rather thick at the center, becoming thin toward the 

 margin, pale ochraceous, soft; convex then expanded and depressed, 

 margin coarsely striate, pellicle thin, viscid, ochraceous with a tinge of 

 'yellow, disk usually becoming darker. Gills slightly adnexed, broad, 

 scarcely crowded, ochraceous. Stem about I % in. long, 5-7 lines 

 thick, slightly wrinkled longitudinally, ochraceous, stuffed, soft. 



Spores globose, echinulate, ochraceous, io-i2p. diameter. 



In pine and mixed woods. 



The mild taste and ochraceous color of every part, including the flesh, 

 separate the present from every other species. 



Commonly confounded with Russula fellea, but known at once by its 

 mild taste. Agreeing most nearly with R. lutea in color, but differing 

 in the softer flesh, which becomes ochraceous upward; sulcate margin 

 of the pileus, and broader, less crowded gills. Pileus persistently 

 ochraceous, disk usually darker. Stem sometimes yellow, sometimes 

 white. Fries. 



North Carolina, borders of woods, Ctirtis; California, Harkness and 

 Moore. 



Fries says that the flavor is mild, but Roze places it in the list of sus- 

 pected species, although he notes it as not acrid ; it may be inferred that 

 he considers the flavor unpleasant. Macadam. 



"Like chicken," not common. Boston Myc. Club Bull. 1896. 



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