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convex or nearly plane, usually becoming centrally depressed with 

 age. It is dry, evenly colored of a peculiar brownish fawn or pale 

 vinaceous cinnamon. The European plant is described as having 

 a brownish tawny cap and no odor is attributed to it. In our plant 

 there is a slight pleasant aromatic odor, but in all essential charac- 

 ters the agreement with the description of the European plant is so 

 close that we consider them both to be specifically the same. 



The cap is 1.5-3 inches broad, the stem 1-1.5 inches long and 

 4-6 lines thick. 



Russula albida Pk. 



WHITISH RUSSULA 

 PLATE 96, FIG. 1-7 



Pileus fleshy, thin, fragile, hemispheric or very convex when 

 young, -becoming nearly plane or slightly depressed in the center, 

 slightly 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 bitterish and unpleasant; lamellae 

 moderately thin, close, entire, occasionally forked at the base, 

 adnate or subdecurrent, white or whitish, the interspaces often 

 venose; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, glabrous, stuffed 

 or hollow, white; spores white with a faint yellowish tinge, sub- 

 globose, .0003-. 0003 5 of an inch long, nearly or quite as broad. 



The whitish russula is readily recognized by its color which is 

 wholly white or sometimes varied only by a slight yellowish tinge 

 in the center of the cap, and in the mature or old gills. The thin 

 margin of the cap is sometimes curved upward in old plants and the 

 interspaces between the gills are usually venose. The pellicle of 

 the cap is separable, indicating with the equal gills and fragile 

 texture that the species belongs to the section Fragiles. The 

 slowly developed bitterish or unpleasant flavor of the fresh plant 

 disappears in cooking. 



The cap is 1-2 inches broad, the stem 1-3 inches long and 3-5 

 lines thick. The plants grow among fallen leaves in woods. Speci- 

 mens have been collected in Rensselaer and Suffolk counties. 



Russula flavida Frost 



YELLOWISH RUSSULA 

 PLATE 97, FIG. 1-6 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or broadly convex becoming nearly- 

 plane or centrally depressed, dry, at first even, often becoming 

 slightly striate on the margin when old, chrome-yellow, sometimes 



