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flesh thin, white, not red under the separable pellicle, taste acrid ; 

 lamellae thin, close, adnexed, ventricose, sometimes slightly uneven 

 or eroded on the edge, white ; stem slender, spongy within or hollow, 

 white ; spores white, subglobose, .0003-.0004 of an inch long. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Woods and swamps. Not rare in hilly and mountainous wooded 

 districts. July and August. 



Var. nivea (Pers.) Cke. Whole plant white from the first. 

 Rainbow, Franklin co. August. 



The species is closely allied toR. emetica Fr. from which 

 it may be separated by its smaller size, paler color, thinner flesh, 

 white under the pellicle, and closer lamellae. 



Russula uncialis Pk. 



INCH WIDE RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 2. 1887. p. 10; State Mus. Bui. 116. pi. 107, fig. 7-12. 



Pileus thin, convex becoming plane or centrally depressed, viscid 

 when moist, glabrous or very minutely granulose, red or pinkish 

 red, obscurely tuberculose striate on the margin, flesh white, taste 

 mild; lamellae moderately close, narrowed toward the stem near 

 which a few of them are forked, adnate or slightly emarginate, 

 white becoming pallid, the interspaces venose ; stem equal, glabrous, 

 stuffed or spongy within, white or reddish ; spores white globose, 

 .0003-00035 of an inch broad. 



Pileus 1-1.5 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 2-4 lines 

 thick. 



Woods. Rensselaer county. June and July. Rare. 



It is unusual to find a red capped, white spored species of this 

 subgenus with a mild taste. This and the next following species 

 are our only examples of this kind. 



Russula purpurina Q. & S. 



PURPURINE RUSSULA 



Pileus fleshy, fragile, subglobose becoming plane or slightly de- 

 pressed in the center, sometimes cup-shaped by the upcurving of the 

 margin, with a separable pellicle, acute and even or nearly so on 

 the margin, deep red, flesh white, reddish under the pellicle, taste 

 mild; lamellae moderately close, subequal, a little narrowed behind, 

 white becoming yellowish with age or in drying; stem rather long, 

 cylindric or sometimes slightly tapering above or below, stuffed or 



