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Mycologia 



straw-yellow when viewed perpendicularly, becoming somewhat 

 cinereous or discolored on drying; spores subglobose, roughly 

 tuberculate, hyaline, 8 /jl ; stipe white with a cinereous tint, smooth, 

 ochraceous, solid, 6 X 2-2.5 cm. 



Collected on a rather dry bank at the edge of oak woods near 

 Bronx Park, New York City, May 22, 19 10, by W. A. Murrill. 

 Described from Sweden. 



Russula uncialis Peck 

 Inch Russula 



Plate 76. Figure 6. X i 



Pileus thin, very fragile, convex to plane or depressed, 2.5-4.5 

 cm. broad; surface dry or slightly viscid, glabrous or minutely 

 granulose, at times obscurely striate on the margin, red or rosy 

 with incarnate or testaceous hues ; context thin, white, of mild 

 flavor, without odor ; lamelae white, becoming stramineous or 

 cremeous, interveined, subcrowded, narrow behind ; spores glo- 

 bose, rough, hyaline, 7-8 /x; stipe equal or enlarging below, gla- 

 brous, spongy or stuffed, milk-white, rarely reddish, 2.5-4 cm. 

 long, 4-10 mm. thick. 



Collected under an oak on the grounds of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Found sparingly in certain localities in the 

 eastern United States. 



Russula foetens Pers. 



Fetid Russula 



Plate 76. Figure 7. X i 



Pileus firm, rather thin, globose to plane or slightly depressed, 

 5-10 cm. broad ; surface very viscid, slimy, conspicuously striate- 

 tuberculate, ochraceous-melleous, testaceous-fulvous in the center 

 with small bay or blackish areas; context whitish, tardily acrid 

 and mucilaginous to the taste, with odor of prussic acid ; lamellae 

 mostly equal, adnate or adnexed, subcrowded, arcuate, white, 

 staining brownish when injured, usually decorated with small 

 drops of water when the air is damp; spores globose, strongly 

 echinulate, hyaline, 10 fx; stipe cyhndric, equal or somewhat ven- 

 tricose, glabrous or subglabrous, white, staining brownish when 

 injured, hollow, 5-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 



This conspicuous species is common under oaks in groves or 



