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Russula pectinatoides n. sp. 



PECTENLIKE RUSSULA 

 PLATE 105, FIG. 6-10 



Pilens thin, broadly convex becoming nearly plane or centrally 

 depressed, viscid when moist, widely tuberculose striate on the 

 margin, brownish or yellowish brown, sometimes darker in the 

 center, flesh white, grayish white under the separable cuticle, taste 

 mild or sliglitly acrid ; lamellae thin, a few forked at the base, occa- 

 sionally a short one, adnate, white becoming pallid ; stem equal, 

 spongy within, even, glabrous, white ; spores whitish, subglobose, 

 .00025-.0003 of an inch long. 



Grassy ground in groves or pastures. The pectenlike russula is 

 similar to Russula pectinata (Bull.) Fr. from which it 

 differs in its mild or slightly acrid flavor, its even stem, in its flesh 

 being grayish white under the cuticle and in its adnate gills. It is 

 gregarious or scattered in its mode of growth and is not plentiful. 

 It closely resembles Russula sororia Fr. in its general ap- 

 pearance, but may be separated from it by its milder taste. 



Its cap is 1-3 inches broad ; its stem is 1-2 inches long and 3-4 

 lines thick. It appears in July and August. It is edible but not 

 very highly flavored. 



Russula uncialis Pk. 



INCH WIDE RUSSULA 

 PLATE 107, FIG. 7-12 



Pileus thin, convex becoming expanded or centrally depressed, 

 viscid when moist, glabrous or very minutely rivulose-granulose, red 

 or pinkish red, the margin obscurely tuberculose striate, flesh white, 

 taste mild ; lamellae moderately close, narrowed toward the stem at 

 which a few of them in some specimens are forked, adnate or slightly 

 emarginate, white, the interspaces venose ; stem equal, glabrous 

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

 rough, .0003-.00035 of an inch in diameter. 



The inch wide russula belongs to the subgenus Fragiles, white 

 spore group. It is about as large as Russula fragilis, but 

 may be distinguished from it by its mild taste and less crowded 

 gills. From similarly colored specimens of R. chameleontina 

 it differs in its white spores and gills. The gills become pallid in 

 drying. 



