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sometimes becoming slightly striate, purplish, lilac or olive-green, 

 commonly becoming paler or yellowish in the center, flesh white, 

 taste mild; lamellae broad, moderately close, rounded behind, pure 

 white ; stem spongy within, even, glabrous, white ,*spores subglobose, 

 .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .00024-.0003 broad. 



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



Woods. Albany and Washington counties. July. Not common. 



The pileus is sometimes bluish on the margin and yellowish in 

 the center, a character suggestive of the specific name, but not rep- 

 resented in any of our specimens. The flesh is sometimes reddish 

 under the cuticle. The stem may become hollow in old specimens. 



Russula earlei Pk. 



EARLE RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Bui. 6"/. 1903. p. 24, pi. N, fig. 5-10. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, hemispheric becoming broadly convex or 

 nearly plane, sometimes centrally depressed, glabrous, very viscid, 

 the margin even, stramineous becoming paler with age, flesh whitish 

 or yellowish, taste mild ; lamellae thick, distant, adnate, a few short, 

 whitish becoming yellowish ; stem short, firm, equal or nearly so, 

 solid, becoming spongy within, white ; spores white, subglobose, 

 .0002-.00024 of an inch long. 



Pileus 1.5-2.5 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 3-5 lines 

 thick. 



Among fallen leaves in woods. Suffolk county. August. 



This species is well marked by its pale and glutinous pileus, its 

 distant lamellae and its small spores. 



Russula consobrina Fr. 



COUSIN RUSSULA 



Pileus fleshy, convex or subhemispheric becoming centrally de- 

 pressed, viscid, even on the membranaceous' margin, gray, olive- 

 brown or umber, flesh white, ashy gray under the pellicle, taste 

 acrid ; lamellae close, adnate, many forked and many short, white ; 

 stem firm, equal, spongy within, white becoming dingy or cinereous 

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

 nearly as broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad; stem 1-3 inches long, 4-10 lines thick. 



In woods. Otsego county. July. Rare. 



