Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

It has high but pleasant flavor. If the flavor is too evident to suit some tastes, it is well to mix milder species with it.

Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine. Plate XLIV.

Fig.	Page.	Fig.	Page.
1. Russula cyanoxantha,	[198]	5. Russula roseipes,	[209]
2. Russula emetica,	[201]	6. Russula virescens,	[194]
3. Russula flavida,	[197]	7. Russula puellaris,	[208]
4. Russula sordida,	[190]

RUS´SULA Pers.

Reddish.

(Plate XLV.)

Russula.

Pileus regular, rigid, usually becoming more or less depressed. Flesh of the pileus descending into the gills forming a cellular trama. Veil and consequently the ring absent. Stem smooth, stout, rigid, brittle, spongy within. Gills rigid, fragile, edge thin and acute. Spores rounded, often echinulate, white or yellowish. On the ground.