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blackish with age or in drying; stem short, solid, white becoming 

 dingy or smoky brown with age ; spores subglobose, .0003-.0004 of 

 an inch long, nearly or quite as broad. 



Pileus 3-5 inches broad; stem 1-2.5 inches long, 6-12 lines thick. 



Woods and clearings. July and August. Edible. 



The dark color of the cooked mushroom gives it an unattractive 

 appearance but its flavor is excellent. This and the following species 

 of which the pileus becomes smoky brown or blackish brown are 

 apt to be infested by the larvae of insects even when quite young. 

 The injury done by them to the flesh causes it to become blackish. 



Russula subsordida Pk. 



SUBSORDID RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 105. p. 40, pi. 99, fig. 1-5. 



Pileus firm, convex becoming nearly plane or centrally depressed, 

 glabrous, viscid when young or moist, whitish becoming smoky 

 brown with age, sometimes with an olive-green tint, flesh grayish 

 white, slowly changing to smoky brown when cut or broken, taste 

 mild or slightly and tardily acrid; lamellae thin, close, adnate, 

 whitish becoming black or blackish with age or in drying; stem 

 short, glabrous, solid becoming spongy within and sometimes 

 cavernous, white becoming smoky brown with age or where 

 wounded ; spores globose, .0003 of an inch broad. 



Pileus 2-5 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 6—12 lines thick. 



Woods. Warren county. July. Rare. Edible. 



Easily distinguished from R. sordida by its viscid pileus. 

 Horicon, Warren co. yet remains the only locality known for this 

 species. 



Russula sordida Pk, 



SORDID RUSSULA 



State Mus. Bui. 105. 1906. p. 39, pi. 98, fig. 1-5. 



Pileus convex becoming centrally depressed, dry, glabrous, dingy 

 white becoming smoky brown with age, flesh grayish white, chang- 

 ing to blackish brown or bluish black where cut or broken, taste mild 

 or tardily acrid ; lamellae close, unequal, adnate or slightly decurrent, 

 sometimes forked, white changing to black or blackish brown with 

 age or in drying; stem short, firm, equal, solid, colored like the 

 pileus ; spores globose, .0003 of an inch broad. 



Pileus 3-6 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 6-12 lines thick. 



