REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I906 7I 



Woods. Albany and Warren counties. July to September. 

 Rare. 



The notable characters of the species are its thin, close, adnate 

 lamellae changing color but slightly with advancing age, its un- 

 changeable flesh and its mild taste. The plant does not become 

 blackish in drying as do the preceding species but assumes a smoky 

 brown or grayish brown hue. It sometimes grows under pine 

 needles which it pushes up enough to reveal its place of growth. 



Russula magnifica Pk. 



MAGNIFICENT RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 67. 1903. p. 24, pi. N, fig. 1-4. 



Pileus convex and umbilicate becoming centrally depressed or 

 infundibuliform, glabrous, viscid when young and moist, even or 

 sometimes slightly rimose squamose in the center, Avhitish becoming 

 pale rusty ochraceous, flesh white or whitish, odor and taste alkaline, 

 strong and disagreeable ; lamellae narrow, close, adnate or slightly 

 decurrent, whitish with a faint pinkish tint, becoming reddish brown 

 where wounded and a dark reddish brown or reddish cinnamon in 

 drying; stem equal or tapering downward, solid becoming spongy 

 or sometimes cavernous within, white or whitish ; spores subglobose, 

 even or nearly so, .0003-. 0004 of an inch long, .00025-.0003 of an 

 inch broad. 



Pileus 4-10 inches broad; stem 2-5 inches long, 8-18 lines thick. 



Among fallen leaves in woods. Suffolk county. August. Local. 



A limited locality near Port Jefferson is the only station known 

 to me where this species has been found. It is the largest russula 

 known to me and is related to R. com pa eta Frost and R. 

 b r e V i p e s Pk. 



Russula compacta Frost 



COMPACT RUSSULA 



State Mus. Rep't 32. 1879. p. 32; State Mus. Bui. 116. pi. 109, fig. 1-4. 



Pileus fleshy, compact, broadly convex, sometimes umbilicate be- 

 coming centrally depressed or even infundibuliform by the upcurv- 

 ing of the margin, dry or subviscid after heavy rain, unpolished, at 

 first white or whitish, becoming rusty ochraceous, flesh white, taste 

 mild or sometimes slightly and tardily acrid, odor in drying strong 

 and disagreeable ; lamellae rather close or subdistant, adnate or 

 slightly rounded behind, unequal, occasionally forked, white, be- 



