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coming reddish brown where wounded and smoky brown in drying; 

 stem short, stout, equal or nearly so, solid, white, but becoming 

 stained with reddish brown in handling or where wounded, and 

 sometimes changing color like the pileus ; spores globose or sub- 

 globose, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .0003 broad. 



Pileus 3-6 inches broad; stem 1.5-2.5 inches long, 6-12 lines thick. 



Ground in woods. Essex, Onondaga, Rensselaer and Suffolk 

 counties. July to September. Edible. 



Russula brevipes Pk. ^ 



SHORT STEM RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Rep't 43. 1890. Bot. ed. p. 20, pi. 2, fig. 5-8. 



Pileus convex and umbilicate, becoming centrally depressed or 

 infundibuliform, dry, glabrous or nearly so, white or whitish, often 

 with yellowish or rusty yellow stains or patches in the center, flesh 

 whitish, taste mild or slightly and tardily acrid ; lamellae thin, close, 

 adnate or decurrent, rarely slightly rounded behind, white becoming 

 tinged with pale cinnamon or ferruginous in age or in drying; stem 

 firm, solid, glabrous, white; spores globose, .0004-0005 of an inch 

 broad. 



Pileus 3-5 inches broad ; stem 1-2 inches long, 6-10 lines thick. 



Woods and open places. Common. July to October. 



This species exhibits less change of color than any of the pre- 

 ceding ones of this subgenus. The lamellae however change with 

 age and in drying and because of this change, their close position, 

 the unpolished and opaque character of the pileus and the slightly 

 acrid taste I have separated it from R. d e 1 i c a , which it closely 

 resembles and to which our plant was formerly referred. It has 

 been referred by Bresadola toR. chloroides (Krombh.) but 

 I have never seen the pileus rimose areolate, nor the lamellae green- 

 ish or glaucous as in that species. The lamellae of both this and 

 the following species are sometimes adorned with watery drops in 

 wet weather. In the type form the stem is very short, but when 

 the plant grows among fallen leaves it is longer. 



Russula delica Fr. 



WEANED RUSSULA 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex and umbilicate, becoming in- 

 fundibuliform, even, glabrous, shining, white, the margin involute 



