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gent Russula, Russula drimeia, but it is easily distinguished from it 
by its mild taste. 
The cap is dry, 2 to 4 in. broad, convex or a little depressed 
in the center, purple or purplish red, the white flesh purplish under 
the cuticle, which, however, is not easily separable. 
The gills are nearly all entire, extending from the stem to the 
margin of the cap. They are therefore much closer together near 
the stem than at the margin. They are at first yellowish, but a 
bright ochraceous buff when mature. They are then dusted by the 
similarly colored spores. 
The stem is stout, nearly cylindric, firm but spongy in the center 
and colored like the cap but generally a little paler. There is a 
variety in which the stem is white and the cap deep red. In other 
respects it is like the typical form. Its name is Russula ochrophylla 
albipes. 
This mushroom has an agreeable flavor but the flesh is rather 
firm. Unless peeled before cooking it imparts a purplish hue to 
the milk or other liquid in which it is stewed. Its edible qualities 
appear to me to be similar to those of the greenish Russula, Russula 
virescens. Both are fairly good but neither seems to be highly 
flavored. No mild-flavored Russula is known to be deleterious and 
two or three of my correspondents claim that even the very acrid 
Russula emetica loses its acridity in cooking and has been eaten by 
them without any harm. But there are so many mild species that 
there is no need of running any risks by eating the acrid ones. The 
ochery-gilled Russula grows in groups under trees, especially oak 
trees, and should be sought in July and August. 
Boletus subglabripes Pk. 
Smoothish-stemmed Boletus 
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Pileus convex or nearly plane, glabrous, reddish inclining to 
chestnut color, flesh white, unchangeable ; tubes adnate, nearly plane 
in the mass, pale yellow, becoming convex and darker or greenish 
yellow with age, the mouths small, subrotund; stem equal, solid, 
furfuraceous, pale yellow; spores oblong-fusiform, .0005 to .0006 in. 
long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 
