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rubbed, some equal, some forking, narrowed at both ends, decur- 
rent, subdistant to distant, rather narrow ; spores subglobose, 
hyaline, tuberculate, lo X 9/^; stipe white, sometimes with a glau- 
cous-green ring at the apex, glabrous or sometimes slightly downy 
at the apex under a lens, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 
Found commonly in dry woods, especially under conifers, from 
jMaine to Alabama and west to Colorado. It very much resembles 
Lac t aria piperata, but is without milky juice and the hymenium 
is usually tinged with glaucous-green. Peck includes it in his list 
of edible fungi and remarks that it is excellent fried in butter. 
It is more compact and lasts longer than most species of Russula. 
Russula flava Romell 
Yellow Russula 
Plate 185. Figure 2. X 1 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, becoming plane or slightly de- 
pressed at the center, 5-8 cm. broad ; surface flavous or golden- 
yellow, sometimes discolored with age, viscid when wet, glabrous ; 
margin even to slightly striate when mature; context white, be- 
coming gray with age and in drying, the taste mild ; lamellae white, 
becoming pale-yellow, then gray with age, equal, not forking, 
adnexed, close, broader at the outer ends ; spores pale-yellow, 
globose, echinulate, 8-9 [x in diameter ; stipe white, becoming more 
or less gray with age or in drying, nearly equal, obscurely reticu- 
late-rivulose, spongy, 5-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 
Found in mixed woods from New England westward to Michi- 
gan. Unfortunately, neither this species nor the two other beau- 
tiful yellow species. Russula lutea and Russula flavida, are very 
abundant. 
Russula virescens (Schaeff.) Fries 
Green Russula 
Plate 185. Figure 3. X i 
Pileus fleshy, globose, becoming convex, then nearly plane and 
often centrally depressed, 5-12 cm. broad; surface green or gray- 
ish-green, dry, with small, flocculose patches or warts resembling 
