Russula 
3 21 
Pileus viscid, 4 cm . , expanded, verrucose . oh disc, dark 
Mars brown, shading to hazel & russet, long striate, sulcate 
margins, pellicle not separable ; flesh thick, now russfct (incipient. 
decs*y) taste slowly acrid; gills close, narrow, pale ochraceous- 
salmon, discoloring to grayish- lavender; spores cream- coxor; 
stipe pale ochrace&us- silmon, discoloring to russet wnere hanuiea, 
tapering upward, J.5 cm. # 6-8 mm. 
Mossy bank. 
Specimens examined; 
Costa Rica, San Jose, Rancho Redondo, Alt .2500-2400 m. , Dodge <& 
5144 
