REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I906 77 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 6-10 lines thick. 



Thin woods and in grassy open places. Not rare. July and 

 August. Edible. 



The margin of the pileus is usually even but occasionally in old 

 specimens it may be partly striate. 



Russula cutefracta Cke. 



BROKEN SKIN RUSSULA 



Pileus convex becoming centrally depressed, dry, even on the mar- 

 gin, the cuticle cracking somewhat radiately but irregularly on the 

 margin, color variable, green, red or purple, flesh white, purplish 

 under the cuticle, taste mild; lamellae narrowed toward the base, 

 somewhat close, some forked, adnexed or nearly free, white; stem 

 solid, firm, nearly equal, whitish or tinged with purple; spores glo- 

 bose, .0004 of an inch broad. 



Pikus 3-4 inches broad; stem 2-^ inches long, 6-10 lines thick. 



Woods and their borders. Albany county. October. 



I have admitted this species on the strength of a single specimen 

 which agrees very closely with Cooke's figure 1040, illustrating the 

 form with green pileus. Still it differs in having the flesh white 

 instead of pinkish under the cuticle. It must be an extremely rare 

 species with us. 



Russula crustosa Pk. 



CRUSTOSE RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 67. 1903. p. 45, pi. 84, fig. 1-7. 



Pileus convex becoming nearly plane or centrally depressed, 

 marked with small appressed areolate scales except on the smooth 

 mostly depressed and sometimes subviscid disk, striate on the mar- 

 gin when mature, color variable, stramineous, pale ochraceous, 

 brownish ochraceous, greenish or greenish yellow, rarely brownish 

 purple, the center sometimes paler, sometimes darker than the mar- 

 gin, flesh white, taste mild or slightly and tardily acrid; lamellae 

 moderately close, narrowed toward the stem, some of them forked, 

 sgme short, white ; stem short, stout, equal, stuffed or hollow, white ; 

 spores subglobose, white, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .00025-.0003 

 of an inch broad. 



Pileus 3-5 inches broad; stem 1-2.5 inches long, 6-12 lines thick. 



Woods and open places. Common. July and August. Edible. 



The striate margin separates this species from all the others ir 

 this subgenus. In this it is nearly always present in the mature 



