DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI, ARRANGED 



ACCORDING TO COLOR OF CAP 



ONLY. 



MUSHROOMS WITH RED OR PINK COLORED CAP. 



The genus Eussula probably contains the 

 largest number of mushrooms with reddish 

 caps, the word Kussula meaning reddish. 



RUSSULA EMETICA = a vomit. 

 The Nauseating Bussula. 



Gap bright blood red, at first rosy, then blood 

 color, tawny when old, 3 to 4 inches broad, 

 first bell-shaped, then fiattened or depressed, 

 polished, margin at length grooved (sulcate), 

 fiesh white, reddish under the cuticle. Stem 

 Ig to 3 inches long, f of an inch thick, white 

 or with a reddish hue, spongy, stuffed, stout, 

 elastic when young, fragile when old, even, 

 tapering slightly upward. Gills free, broad, 

 rather distant, white. 



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