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or purplish streaks ; margin usually paler, involute and minutely 

 downy in the young plant ; context white, sometimes tinged with 

 red, the taste mild ; lamellae subdistant, rounded behind or sub- 

 decurrent, white or yellow, often becoming red-spotted with age ; 

 spores ellipsoid, 6-7.5X4/^; stipe solid, firm, dry, white, often 

 reddish below, squamulose at the apex, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 thick. 



This species was figured in Mycologia for September, 191 5, the 

 form there represented having a pale-pink surface with yellow- 

 ish stains, and white gills. The form here shown is much redder 

 and the gills are yellowish. The plant is frequent, either growing 

 singly or in clusters, under oaks or in mixed woods in the north- 

 eastern United States, although not abundant enough to consider 

 for table use. Dr. Peck agrees with Mcllvaine that it is delicious ; 

 and it certainly has that appearance. The name refers to its re- 

 semblance to Russula, but the context is firm and not vesiculose, 

 while the spores are very distinct. Mrs. Delafield found the deep- 

 red form at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, in August of this 

 year and sent in a specimen of it to the Garden herbarium. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



