88 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Pileus: flat to depressed; umber at margin, darker at disk. 
Margin coarsely striate, thin; smooth or with few yellowish 
fibrils. 5-12 cm. Taste, mild; odor none. 
Gills: free or slightly adnexed, not crowded, equal, thin, inter- 
veined, white. 
Stem: 4-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick, mealy, cylindrical, white to 
ocher; fleshy then hollow. July. 
Spores: globose, spinulose, 9x9/*. 
Characters 
specimens. 
f Gills: wrinkled, thin, drab and leather 
of dried! colored. 
I Stem: rough, ocher to brown. 
[ Pileus: umber, dark at disk, striate, thin. 
Habitat. Ground on lawns. 
Locality. Madison, Burlington. 
Edibility. ? 
This Russula is close in its affinities to B. consobrina var. soro~ 
ria Fr. but has a mild taste. It is close also to B. ochracea Fr. 
but has not the ocher gills. 
