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3 Surface of the pileus even, not rimose nor squamose modesta 



4 Stem yellow flavida 



4 Stem not yellow 5 



5 Pileus pruinose, red or purple mariae 



5 Pileus not pruinose 6 



6 Pileus striate on the margin when mature crustosa 



6 Pileus even on the margin 7 



7 Surface of the pileus polished, taste acrid ; rubra 



7 Surface of the pileus not polished, taste not acrid 8 



8 Surface of the pileus even, dark red or purplish red g 



8 Surface of the pileus often rimose areolate, color variable lepida 



9 Young lamellae white, changing color where wounded squalida 



9 Young lamellae yellow, not changing color where wounded. .. .ochrophylla 



Russula viridella Pk, 



PALE GREEN RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 105. 1906. p. 41, pi. 100, fig. 1-7. 



Pileus subglobose, hemispheric or very convex, becoming nearly 

 plane or centrally depressed, even on the margin, dry, soon miniitely 

 squamulose or furfuraceous, specially toward the margin, pale 

 grayish green, generally smooth and paler or subochraceous in the 

 center, flesh white, taste acrid; lamellae thin, narrow, close, some 

 of them forked, a few short ones intermingled, white; stem equal 

 or nearly so, even, solid or spongy within, white; spores white 

 tinged with yellow, globose or subglobose, .00024-0003, of an inch 

 long, nearly as broad, cystidia subfusiform, .0025-. 003 of an inch 

 long, .0006 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches long, 5-8 lines thick. 



Under hemlock trees. Horicon, Warren co. July. Edible. 



It has yet been found in no other locality so far as we know. The 

 acridity is destroyed by cooking. 



Russula virescens (Schaeff.) Fr. 



GREENISH RUSSULA 



State Mus. Rep't 48. Bot. ed. p. 189, pi. 31, fig. 1-8. 



Pileus fleshy, at first nearly globose, soon convex or nearly plane 

 often becoming centrally depressed, dry, adorned with small floccu- 

 lent patches or warts, the margin even, green or grayish green, 

 flesh white, taste mild ; lamellae moderately close, narrowed toward 

 the stem, free or nearly so, a few of them forked and a few shorter 

 ones sometimes intermingled, white ; stem short, firm, white ; spores 

 subglobose, white, .00024-0003 of an inch long. 



