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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS'OF CANADA
fading to yellowish, somewhat shining, glabrous, viscid, margin slightly
striate-tuberculate. flesh white, rather fragile, acrid, lamellae white to
creamy yellow, broad, subdistant, nearly free, stipe 3-4 in. long, y2-\ in. thick,
nearly equal or slightly narrowed above, white or washed with pinkish, spongy.
SPORES pale yellow, subglobose, 9-12 X 8-10 /u, ornamented with prominent
warts and spines, a few joined by fine lines, not reticulate.
Singly or gregarious in wet places or among sphagnum. July-Sept.
A large and showy species differing from R. emetica in the pale yellow
spore deposit and less acrid taste. Some authors say the taste is mild and there
is some doubt as to whether the forms with mild taste might be considered a
distinct species, R. rubrotincta (Pk.) Burl. Specimens labeled as having a mild
taste seem to be identical microscopically with the acrid forms. The edges of
the lamellae are said to be sometimes red near the margin. Its edible qualities
are not known.
RUSSULA PUELLARIS Fr.
PILEUS l-lj/^ in. broad, thin, fragile, convex, becoming plane or slightly
depressed, variable in color, bluish black, purplish, or yellowish, usually
darker or brownish in the center, viscid, glabrous, pelHcle separable, margin
tuberculate-striate. flesh white or becoming watery translucent, tinged like
the surface under the pellicle, fragile, mild, lamellae narrowly adnate to
adnexed, close, narrowed toward the stipe, white, becoming pale yellow, stipe
1-2 in. long, J4-!/2 ^^- thick, equal or tapering upward, glabrous, white, usually
with yellowish stains toward the base especially when old, stuffed or hollow,
soft and fragile, spores pale yellow, subglobose, rough, (7) 8-10 (11) X (6)
7.5-9 M, ornamented with medium to high warts and spines, some joined by
fine Hnes or confluent forming short ridges, partly reticulate.
Gregarious on the ground in moist woods. Aug.-Oct.
This species is distinguished from R. abietina and R. chamaeleontina by
the pale yellow spore deposit. The yellowish stains that develop in the stipe are
also a distinguishing character. It is probably edible but is a small, fragile
species not likely to be gathered for food.
RUSSULA SORDIDA Peck Edible
Figure 79, page 46
PILEUS 2-6 in. broad, firm, convex, depressed in the center, whitish becom-
ing smoky with age, dry, glabrous, margin at first incurved, not striate, flesh
firm, whitish, when bruised quickly becoming blackish without first turning
reddish, mild to slightly and slowly acrid, lamellae adnate to sHghtly decur-
rent, close, rather narrow, alternating long and short, white becoming blackish
in age or on drying, stipe 1-2 in. long, J^-l in. thick, equal, white becoming
black when bruised, soHd. spores white, oblong-ellipsoid, (7) 8-10 (1 1) X 5.5-
7.5 M, ornamented with fine, low, separate warts, nearly smooth.
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