02 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Russula albida Pk. 



WHITISH RUSSULA 



State Mils. Bui. 2. 1887. p. 10; State Mus. Bui. 105. 1906. p. 38, pi. 96, 



fig. 1-7. 



Pileus thin, fragile, hemispheric or very convex becoming nearly 

 plane or slightly depressed in the center, shghtly viscid when moist, 

 white, often tinged with yellow in the center, even or slightly striate 

 on the margin, flesh white, taste mild or slightly and tardily bit- 

 terish and unpleasant; lamellae thin, moderately close, entire, oc- 

 casionally forked at the base, adnate or subdecurrent, white or whit- 

 ish, the interspaces often venose; stem equal or slightly tapering- 

 upward, glabrous, stuffed or hollow, white ; spores white or with a 

 faint yellowish tinge, subglobose, .0003-.00035 of an inch long, 

 nearly or quite as broad. 



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



Among fallen leaves in woods. Rensselaer and Suffolk counties. 

 July and August. Edible. 



The slowly developed unpleasant taste of the fresh plant is lost in 

 cooking. The thin margin of the cap is sometimes curved upward 

 in old plants. Distinguished from R. lactea Fr., which it re- 

 sembles in color, by its separable, slightly viscid pellicle, its adnate 

 or subdecurrent closer lamellae and its stuffed or hollow stem. By 

 the adnate lamellae and mild taste it may be distinguished from 

 whitened forms of R. erne tic a Fr. 



Russula albella Pk. 



SLIGHTLY WHITE RUSSULA 

 State Mus. Rep't 50. p. loi. 



Pileus thin, fragile, dry, plane or slightly depressed in the center, 

 even or obscurely striate on the margin, white or whitish, some- 

 times tinged with pink or rose-red, specially on the margin, flesh 

 white, taste mild ; lamellae thin, close, equal, white ; stem equal, 

 solid or spongy within, white; spores white globose, .0003 of an 

 inch broad. 



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



Dry soil in woods. Suffolk county. July. Rare. 



This species, like R. a n o m a 1 a Pk. departs from the usual 

 character of the species of this subgenus in having a dry pileus. 

 The fragile pileus and equal lamellae, however, indicate its close 



