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more, flesh-colour, changing colour, very thin, fleshy only at the Russula. 

 disc, at the first convex and often umbonate, then plane and 

 depressed, pellicle thin, becoming pale, slightly viscid in wet 

 weather ; margin very thin, tuberculoso-striate. Stem 4-5 cent. 

 (1^-2 in.) long, spongy within, soon hollow, often slightly 

 striate, white. Gills slightly adnexed, very thin, crowded, broad, 

 ventricose, all equal, shining white. 



Very acrid. Smaller and more fragile than the rest of the group, directly 

 changing colour. The colour is variable, often opaque, typically flesh-colour, 

 when changed in colour white externally and internally, often with reddish 

 spots. Among varieties of colour is to be noted a livid-flesh-coloured form, 

 with the disc becoming fuscous. 



It is not easy to define it from fragile forms of R. emetica, but the gills are 

 much more crowded, thinner, and often slightly eroded at the edge, ventricose ; 

 the pileus thinner and more lax, &c. 



In woods. Common. Au.-Oct. 



^.fragilis, fragile or brittle. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 198. Hym. Eur. p. 

 450. Berk. Out. p. 213. C. Hbk. n. 631. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 605. Ag. Pers. 

 Krombh. t. 64. /. 12-18. Bull. t. 509. /. T, U. Barla t. 14. /. 10-12. 

 Corda ap. Sturm xi. t. 53. Vent. t. 33. /. 4, 5. 



** Gills and spores white then light yellowish, &c. 



33. R. veternosa Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, rose or 

 flesh-colour, soon becoming pale, commonly whitish or yellowish 

 at the disc, slightly fleshy, plane when full grown, depressed in 

 the middle, covered with a thin, adnate, somewhat viscid pellicle, 

 margifi even, scarcely membranaceous ; flesh soft, white. Stem 

 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 12 mm. (% in.) thick, soft, spongy then 

 hollow, fragile, equal, even, white. Gills adnate, crowded, nar- 

 row, becoming broader in front, with shorter ones intermixed, 

 white then straw-colour. 



Taste acrid. 

 On the ground. Chatteris. 



Name veternosus, drowsy, languid. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 201. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 450. B. & Br. n. 1132. C. Hbk. n. 635. Ag. Krombh. t. 66. /. 18, 19. 

 Paul. t. 74.7. 3. 



34. R. integra Fr. Pileus typically red, changing colour, 

 fleshy, campanulato-convex then expanded and depressed, fragile 

 when full grown, with a viscous pellicle, at length sulcate and 

 somewhat tubercular at the margin \flesh white, sometimes yel- 

 lowish above. Stem at first short, conical, then clavate or ven- 

 tricose, as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, spongy-stuffed, com- 

 monly stout, even, shining white. Gills somewhat free, very 

 broad, equal or bifid at the stem, somewhat distant, connected 



