86 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
B. roseipes (Seer.) Bres. 
Pilens: convex, plane or depressed, somewhat farinaceous; rosy 
red, ocher and whitish. Margin, thin, at first incurved to 
stem; striate at edge. Cracking at edge and divided into 
areas when old. 3-6 cm. broad. Flesh, white, pinkish un¬ 
der pellicle. Taste mild. 
Gills: free or slightly adnexed, subcrowded, rounded poster¬ 
iorly, stramineus to light yellow. 
Stem: 4-6 cm. long, l%-2 cm. thick, terete, tapering upward, 
smooth; white, sometimes rosy, spongy. 
Spores: globose or ellipsoidal 6x6/*, 7x9/*, light ocher yellow, 
eehinulate. 
Characters 
on which 
f Pileus: 
Stem: 
identification ■, Gills: 
is based. 
Taste: 
rosy and ocher, 
reddish, 
ochery. 
mild. 
r Pileus: brittle and cracked at margin, retaining 
Characters red color as when fresh, 
of dried ■{ Gills: ocher, close and wrinkled, 
specimens. I Stem: retaining its shape well; rosy; color persist- 
l cnt. ; j i : f!| 
Habitat. Open mixed woodfe on ground. 
Locality. Madison (Picnic Point). 
Edibility. Agreeable in flavor. (Peck. ) 
B. virescens Fr. 
Pileus: convex, flat or depressed; thick at disk, dry, breaking 
up into darker areas ; green or grayish. Margin, striate or 
even. 5-15 cm.; flesh, white. Taste, mild. 
Gills: free, appearing adnate by expansion of pileus, broad and 
thick, subcrowded, interveined, few forked near stem, white 
to cream. 
Stem: 4-7 cm. long; stout, fleshy, cylindrical or small at base. 
11/2-3 cm. thick, smooth, white. July and August. 
Spores: sparingly eehinulate, subglobose, 6x6/*, 6x8/*. 
