RUSSULA. 119 



Monogr. ii. p. 190. Hym. Eur. p. 443. B. &* Rr. 1133. C. Hbk. n. 621. Russula. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 591. Ag. Pers. Krombh, t. 6i.f. 1-2. Barla t. 15. f. 1-13. 

 Paul. t. 74. f. 2. 



13. R. virescens Fr. Pileus green, compactly fleshy, globose 

 then expanded, at length depressed, often unequal, always dry, 

 not furnished with a pellicle, wherefore the flocculose cuticle is 

 broken up into patches or warts, margin straight, obtuse, even; 

 flesh white, not very compact. Stem solid, internally spongy, 

 firm, somewhat rivulose, white. Gills free, somewhat crowded, 

 sometimes equal, sometimes forked, with a few shorter ones 

 intermixed, white. 



Taste mild. It varies in size and colour of pileus, which is sometimes deep 

 sometimes pallid green, sometimes yellowish then green. The gills are not 

 so broad in front as those of neighbouring species. It is very easily distin- 

 guished from all others by the green pileus being without a pellicle and innato- 

 flocculose, then rivulose, and scaly in the form of patches. 



In woods. Frequent. July-Sept. 



Stem variable in form, slightly reticulated with raised lines. M.J.B. 

 Pileus sometimes as much as 10 cent. (4 in.) broad. Edible. Spores scarcely 

 echinulate, almost globular, 6 mk. W.G.S. Name vireo, to be green. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 190. Hym. Eur. p. 443. Berk. Out. p. 212. /. 13. f. 6. 

 C. Hbk. n. 622. .S. Mycol. Scot. n. 592. Hussey ii. /. n. Ag. Schceff. t. 94 

 excluding/, i. Vittad. t. 31. Sturm Deutschl. Fl. iii. 3. t. 31. Barla t. 16. 

 f. 10-12. Ventur. t. 17. f. i, 2. Krombh. t. 67. f. i-io. 



14. R. DuPortii Phill. Pileus 4-6.5 cent. (i%-2% in.) broad, 

 centre rufous or flesh-red, margin bluish, compact, fleshy, firm, 

 convexo- plane, depressed, smooth, dry, margin even, obtuse. 

 Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) or more high, 10-16 mm. (5-8 lin.) broad, 

 spongy-stuffed, minutely striate, glabrous, white. Gills rounded 

 behind, broad, distant, white. 



The flesh turns reddish -brown when cut, and the odour is that of the 

 common crab. 



In wood. Mattishall, Norfolk. 



Spores globose, asperate, 9 mk. W.P. Name after Rev. J. M. Du Port. 

 Phill. Grevillea, vol. xiii. p. 49. 



15. R. lepida Fr. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, blood-red-rose, 

 becoming pale, whitish especially at the disc, somewhat equally 

 fleshy, convex then expanded, scarcely depressed, obtuse, opaque, 

 unpolished, with a silky appearance, at length often rimoso- 

 squamulose, margin spreading, obtuse, without striae. Stem 

 as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, often 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, 

 even, white or rose-colour. Gills rounded behind, rather thick, 

 somewhat crowded, often forked, connected by veins, white, often 

 red at the edge. 



