Beardslee: Notes on Asheville Fungi 
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Russula meliolens Quelet 
This species is common at Asheville and was for several years 
a puzzle. 'It is not far from R. alutacea and R. Integra, but is 
distinct from both. It is not unlikely that it has troubled others 
who have found it. It is a robust plant, with a peculiar faded 
red color, mild taste and cream-colored spores. As it dries, it 
develops a strong odor of new meal, which is very distinct. Its 
spores are different from those of any species with which it can 
be confused. They are subglobose and almost smooth. Under 
an enlargement of 150 diameters, they often seem entirely smooth. 
A good oil immersion of higher power shows the surface marked 
with very delicate warts with faint reticulating lines. This is so 
very unusual in the fragile species of Russula that it gives a very 
accurate means of identification. It is probable that the range 
of this species will be found to be extensive. 
Russula rubescens sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, finally expanded and depressed, 5-8 cm. broad ; 
surface red, margin paler, fading with age, thin, striate ; context 
mild to the taste ; lamellae rather close, white, adnate, forked, 
especially at the base; spores pale-yellow, subglobose, 7-9 /x, 
rough, echinulate; cystidia large, numerous, 50-65X10-12^; 
stipe white, at length becoming cinereous without and within, 
often blackening with age or in drying, quickly becoming red and 
then black when wounded, stuffed, becoming hollow. 
This species seems especially well marked. The reddening of 
the stipe when scraped is seen in certain members of the Com- 
pactae, but a red species which has this character is a novelty. It 
suggests in some ways R. depallens Fries, which seems to be a 
puzzle to European mycologists. It is believed by them, however, 
to be different from that species. As it grows, I find the stipe 
always becoming blackish within and without at the base. 
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Russula albidula Peck 
Pileus firm, soon depressed and somewhat infundibuliform, 
4-10 cm. broad ; surface pure-white, viscid when moist, margin 
even ; context extremely acrid to the taste ; lamellae white, becom- 
ing yellowish, rather narrow, unequal, decurrent, a few forking; 
