Russula pectinata Fr. 1838

Russula pectinata Fries, Epicr. Myc. 358. 1838
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, becoming plane, then centrally depressed, up to 8 cm. broad; surface raw-umber to snuff-brown, paler on the margin, at times somewhat fuscous in the center, slimy-viscid when wet, the pellicle not easily separable, glabrous; margin pectinate-sulcate half way to the disk, thin : context next to the pellicle tinged like the surface, unpleasant and slowly but decidedly acrid in taste, with a slight odor like R. foetens when fresh, the odor becoming more pungent in drying and persisting in dried specimens for some months; lamellae white, equal, mostly simple, venoseconnected, narrowed toward the stipe, close; stipe white, rarely with a touch of umber at the base; often tapering downward, firm, becoming spongy within, 3.5-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. thick: spores white, broadly elliptic, echinulate, 6-7 X 7-8 fx.
Type locai^ity: Europe.
Habitat: In grassy places in deciduous woods of oak, chestnut, beech, and maple.^
DisXRrBUTiON : New York west to Ohio, Missouri, and Washington and south to Mississippi ; also in Eiu^ope.