Russula AGARICACE^E 287 



St. wrinkled, equal or attenuate downwards, white, sometimes 

 shaded pale rose, purple or ochre. G. adnate, crowded, 

 white or yellowish. 



Edible. Taste mild, pleasant to unpleasant ; odour of hog's lard or some- 

 what like crab, becoming like lobster or crab when cooked. Woods, mixed ; 

 frequent. Aug.-Oct. 4 X 2\ X i in. 



1336. R. lilaeea Quel. (from its lilac colours) a. 



P. convex to depressed, viscid, violet, purple or rosy-purple ; 



marg. at length almost white. St. attenuate downwards, 



pruinose above, white, sometimes rosy at base. G. adnate, 

 distant, white. Flesh violet under pellicle. 



Taste mild. Woods, moist places. Aug. 3^ X 2 X f in. 



1337. R. azurea Bres. (from the azure-blue pileus) a b. 



P. convex to depressed, minutely granulose, dry, bright blue, 

 deep purple, dark indigo or greenish-slate; mid. sometimes 

 ochre or brown ; marg. scarcely striate, sometimes lilac, 

 becoming dilute cobalt and indigo. St. rugulose, equal, 

 ventricose or subclavate, white or clouded pale rose. 

 G. adnexed, crowded, white. 



Edible. Taste mild, sometimes bitter. Woods, fir, grassy places under 

 trees. Aug.-Sept. 3! X if X f in. 



1338. R. cyanoxantha Fr. (from the colours ; Gr. kuanos, blue, 



xanthos, yellow) a b. 



P. hemispherical to depressed, viscid, lilac, purplish, olivaceous- 

 green, green-slate, purplish-rufous, pale rose, purplish-slate or 

 buff; mid. becoming pale or yellowish. St. equal, smooth, 

 shining, hollow when old, white, G. rounded, somewhat 

 crowded, white. Flesh white, reddish or purplish beneath 

 pellicle. 



Said to be edible. Taste mild, pleasant. Moist places in woods, mixed ; 

 common. June-Oct. 3J| X 2\ X f in. 



1338a. R. mitis W. G. Sm. (from the mild taste ; mifis, mild) b. 



P. convex, then piano-expanded and depressed, viscid, then 

 smooth, with a separable pellicle, striate and in old examples, 

 tuberculate ; mid. pale yellowish, surrounded by purplish- 

 mouse-colour or pale rose and purple ; marg. yellowish or 

 biscuit. St. stuffed, then hollow, slightly attenuate downwards, 

 rugulose, white. G. adnate, branched, veined above, white, 

 then faint straw-colour. Flesh white, tinging to rusty, pale 

 ochre beneath pellicle. 



Taste mild. Woods. Aug. 3 X 2 X f in. 



1339. R. heterophylla Fr. (from the gills, of different lengths ; 



Gr. heteros, one of two, phullon, a leaf) a b c. 

 P. hemispherical to depressed, even, shining, usually apple-green 

 or indigo-apple-green ; mid. darker or pale apple-green, 

 clouded brownish or sienna, never reddish or purple. 



