REPORT OF STATE BOTANIST, 1 897 307 
by Massee who considered it a variety of Russula puellaris and named 
it Russula puellaris roscipcs. Though having points of resemblance 
to both R. alutacca and R. puellaris it seems better to us to retain it 
as a distinct species. It is not common in our state, having been 
collected in Albany and Saratoga-counties only. Its distinguishing 
characters are its mild taste, its rosy cap which is commonly dry 
and but slightly striate on the margin, its gills changing from whitish 
to yellow or subochraceous and being slightly attached to the stem 
and its stem being slightly stained with rosy red. 
From R. alutacca it may be separated by its smaller size, more 
narrow and slightly attached gills and by its less highly colored gills 
and spores. From R. puellaris , which it resembles in size, it may be 
distinguished by not having the center of the cap more highly 
colored than the rest and by the rosy tint of the stem. In the 
European plant the stem is said to be sprinkled with a rosy meali¬ 
ness or pruinosity, but in our plant the color appears to be in the 
stem itself. 
The cap is I to 2 in. broad, the stem is ij to 2 in. long 
and 3 to 4 lines thick. The plants grow in woods of pine and hem¬ 
lock and have been collected in July and August. The flesh is tender 
and agreeable in flavor. 
Russula ochrophylla Pk. 
OCHERY-GILLED RUSSULA 
Plate 53 , fig. 8 - 14 . 
Pileus firm, convex becoming nearly plane or slightly depressed 
in the center, even or rarely very slightly striate on the margin 
when old, purple or dark purplish red, flesh white, purplish under 
the adnate cuticle, taste mild; lamellae entire, a few of them forked 
at the base, subdistant, adnate, at first yellowish, becoming bright 
ochraceous buff when mature, dusted by the spores, the interspaces 
somewhat venose; stem equal or nearly so, solid or spongy within, 
reddish or rosy tinted, paler than the pileus; spores bright ochra¬ 
ceous buff, globose, verruculose, .0004 in. broad. 
The ochery-gilled Russula is a large fine species but not a common 
one. It differs but little in color and size from the European pun- 
