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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
Solitary or scattered in mixed woods. July-Sept.
This is a yellow to orange species with ochraceous spores and acrid taste
in which the lamellae and stipe do not turn gray on drying. Its edible quahties
are not known but it is not recommended because of the acrid taste.
RUSSULA CHAMAELEONTINA Fr. sensu Kauffm. Edible
Figure 107, page 51
PILEUS %-2 in. broad, thin, fragile, plane or depressed, variable in color,
red to purpHsh or hlac, fading to yellowish, especially on the disk, glabrous,
viscid, pellicle separable, margin even, becoming somewhat tuberculate-
striate. flesh thin, fragile, white, mild, lamellae adnexed to almost free, close
to crowded, rather narrow, equal or a few forked, ochraceous yellow, stipe
%-2 in, long, i4-!4 in. thick, equal or sHghtly tapering upward, glabrous or
sHghtly marked with lines, white, spongy-stuffed becoming hollow, spores
ochraceous, subglobose, 7-9 (10) X 5.5-7.5 /x, ornamented with rather promi-
nent warts and spines, mostly separate or occasionally confluent or joined by
fine hnes.
Sohtary or gregarious on the ground in coniferous or mixed woods.
Aug.-Sept.
Considerable confusion exists in the Hterature concerning this species and
it may be a collective species including several recognizable forms. In general,
a small Russula with ochraceous spore deposit, mild taste, and variable colors
with some tendency to fade to yellowish, would probably be referred here.
RUSSULA DECOLORANS Fr. Edible
Figure 108, page 51
piLEUS 2-5 in. broad, firm, at first globose, becoming plane to shghtly
depressed, orange-red, Hght red, or salmon colored, the disk usually ochre,
glabrous, shghtly viscid, the pellicle partly separable, margin even, becoming
shghtly striate when old. flesh at first firm, becoming fragile in age, white,
becoming ashy in age or when wounded, mild, lamellae adnexed, close,
moderately broad, at first white, becoming pale yellowish, ochraceous, becom-
ing ashy gray on drying, some forked at the base, equal or with a few short
ones. STIPE 2-4 )/2 in. long, J/2-I
ii^- thick, equal or nearly so, smooth or some-
what wrinkled with fine hnes, white, becoming ashy in age or when bruised,
sohd or spongy, spores subglobose, pale ochraceous yellow, 10-13 X 8-10 m>
ornamented with high, separate warts and spines, some joined by fine fines.
Sept.
Sohtary or scattered on the ground in coniferous or mixed woods. July-
This is a large orange-red species particularly characterized by the lamellae
and stipe changing to ashy gray when dried or in age.
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