Spores 8–10µ diameter Massee.
Allied to R. vesca. Known by the bright rose-colored, densely granular pileus and tuberculose margin. When old the pileus is almost entirely ochraceous. Massee.
Frequent in the West Virginia forests, 1881–1885. Chester county, Pa., 1887–1890. In mixed woods. July to September. McIlvaine.
It differs from R. vesca in its cap being minutely granulated instead of streaked, and in becoming acrid with age.
The caps are of good quality, needing to be well cooked.
Fra´giles.
R. eme´tica Fr.—an emetic. (Plate [XLIV], fig. 2, p. 184.) Pileus 3–4 in. broad, at first rosy then blood-color, tawny when old, sometimes becoming yellow and at length (in moist places) white, at first bell-shaped then flattened or depressed, polished, margin at length furrowed and tubercular. Flesh white, reddish under the separable pellicle. Stem spongy-stuffed, stout, elastic when young, fragile when older, even, white or reddish. Gills somewhat free, broad, somewhat distant, shining white.
Handsome, regular, moderately firm, but fragile when full grown, taste very acrid. Fries.
Spores shining white, Fries; spheroid, echinulate, 8–10µ K.; 7µ W.G.S.