So NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Pileiis 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches long, 6-10 Hnes thick. 



Woods. Albany, Madison, Rensselaer and Suffolk counties. July 

 and August. 



Distinguished from other members of this subgenus by its smooth 

 polished pileus and its very acrid taste. Var. s a p i d a Cke. 

 (R. atropurpurea Krombh.) is said to be mild in flavor, but 

 otherwise like the species. I have not seen it. 



Russula squalida nom. nov. 



SQUALID RUSSULA 



Russula atropurpurea Pk. State Mus. Rep't 41. 1888. p. 75. 



Pileus convex becoming centrally depressed, glabrous, dark pur- 

 ple, often blackish in the center, even or slig'htly striate on the mar- 

 gin when old, flesh white, grayish or grayish purple under the 

 cuticle, taste mild, odor in drying fetid ; lamellae subdistant, a few 

 forked at the base, occasionally a short one intervening, white be- 

 coming yellowish, brownish where wounded ; stem equal, glabrous, 

 solid or spongy within, white, brownish where bruised ; spores pale 

 ochraceous with a salmon tint, subglobose, .0003-0004 of an inch 

 long, nearly as broad. 



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



Margin of woods. Saratoga county. July. 



In the dried state this russula has a peculiar dingy and im- 

 attractive appearance. It is very distinct in the unusual color of 

 the spores and the brownish hue assumed where wounded. A g a r - 

 icus atropurpurea Krombh. being a species of Russula, it 

 becomes necessary to give a new name to the plant to which this 

 specific name was formerly applied by me. 



Russula ochrophylla Pk. 



OCHERY GILLED RUSSULA 



State Mus. Rep't 50. 1897. p. 100; State Mus. Mem. 3. 1900. p. 150, pi. 54, 



"^ fig. 8-14. 



Pileus firm, convex becoming nearly plane and umbilicate or 

 centrally depressed, dry, unpolished, even on the margin, dark red 

 or purplish red, often a little darker in, the center, flesh white, red 

 under the adnate cuticle, taste mild ; lamellae subdistant, adnate, 

 nearly entire, a few forked at the base, yellowish becoming bright 

 ochraceous buff, dusted by the spores, the interspaces somewhat 

 venose; stem equal or nearly so, solid or spongy within, reddish 



