. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. odor. In tlie raw state it has a slightly harsh or astringent flavor, but all â writers agTee in classing it among the edible species. It has not the hot, biting flavor of the truly acrid species, and cannot be easUy mistaken for any objectionable species. To my taste it is not high-flavored, but fairly good. XV. RUSSULAS, FAIEY-EING MUSHROOMS, OHAN- TARELLES AND YISCID BOLETI. In the genus Russula, the species are similar in size, shape and substance to those of the gentis Lactarius, but the plants exude no milky or colored juice from wounds. The cap is
. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. odor. In tlie raw state it has a slightly harsh or astringent flavor, but all â writers agTee in classing it among the edible species. It has not the hot, biting flavor of the truly acrid species, and cannot be easUy mistaken for any objectionable species. To my taste it is not high-flavored, but fairly good. XV. RUSSULAS, FAIEY-EING MUSHROOMS, OHAN- TARELLES AND YISCID BOLETI. In the genus Russula, the species are similar in size, shape and substance to those of the gentis Lactarius, but the plants exude no milky or colored juice from wounds. The cap is often red, purple or rosy hued, a circumstance that seems to have suggested the generic name. The colored zones often seen on the cap in species of Lactarius are strangely absent in this genus. The ac- rid and mild flavors observed there are present here, and may be employed as a test of desirability. The species in many instances are difficult of separation in consequence of similarity and ^--<7~^*''"~'w variability in coloring. "We l^agm^^^ will introduce but a single ed- ible species, although several occur within our territory. ' The Greenish russula, Bus- sula virescens, is easily known from all others by its greenish or grayish-green warty cap. Green is a rare color among miishrooms, and when it does occur, it is not the clear green of flowering plants, but a dull, me- tallic green or grayish-green. In our plant the surface of the cap is dry, not viscid as in some related species, and is broken up into small warts. The gills are white or whitish, and gradually nar- rowed toward the stem. This is commonly shorter than the diameter of the cap, white and solid, or merely spongy in texture in the centre. The flesh is white and taste mild. The cap is two to four inches broad, the stem one to two inches long and half an inch or more thick. The Greenish mushroom grows in thin woods or groves, or in. KiisBula virescens. Marasmius oreades. 65. Please note that these
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