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c. Rigidce. 



1325. R. laetea Fr. (from its milk-white colour ; /etc, milk) a b. 



P. convex, sometimes faintly spotted cream-buff; mid. biscuit- 

 buff. St. nearly equal, even, white, sometimes rose at base. 

 G. free to adnate, thick, distant, furcate at base and apex, 

 ivory. 



Said to be edible, but suspicious. Taste mild ; odour of meal. Woods, 

 mixed, fir ; uncommon. Aug. -Oct. 3 X 2j x f in. Var. incarnata 

 Cooke. P. shaded with pink-buff or dull purple-rose, with lighter and a 

 few pale sienna spots. 



1326. R. virescens Fr. (from the frequently green pileus ; vireo, to 



be green) a b c. 



P. pulvinate to depressed, innato-flocculose, without a pellicle, 

 surface soon broken up into patches or warts, verdigris-green, 

 varying olive, dull ochre with mid. verdigris, reddish-purple 

 and other shades. St. somewhat rivulose, often clouded pale 

 verdigris. G. free, white to biscuit. Flesh white, verdigris 

 under pellicle. 



Edible. Taste mild, like hazel-nuts when raw, sometimes slowly and slightly 

 acrid ; odour of 1394. Woods; frequent. July-Oct. 4! X 2| X I in. 

 The " Champignon des Dames " of French authors. 



1327. R. eutefraeta Cooke (from the broken cuticle) ; cutefractus, 



with the skin broken) a b. 



P. pulvinate to depressed, even, cuticle cracking as in 1326, 

 surface green, purple, bluish-purple, dull red, claret-red, etc., 

 purple beneath cuticle. St. equal, smooth, white, often clouded 

 rose-purplish. G. adnexed or nearly free, somewhat crowded, 

 white or pale yellowish. 



Taste mild. Woods. Sept. 3^ X ij X f in. Probably a form of 1326 ; 

 intermediate forms occur. 



1328. R. lepida Fr. (from its appearance; lepid-us, elegant) a b c. 



P. convex to slightly depressed, often rimoso-squamulose, 

 reddish-rose with deep red-rose mid. or sienna-ochreous with 

 deep red mid., which at length becomes whitish. St. even, 

 equal, white to rose. G. adnato-rounded, somewhat thick, 

 somewhat crowded, white or pale yellowish, often rose at 

 edge. 



Edible. Taste mild. Woods, mixed, amongst grass ; frequent. Aug.-Oct. 

 4^ X z\ X i in. Becomes green in cooking. 



1329. R. rubra Fr. (from the red pileus ; ruber, red) a b c. 



P. hemispherical to plane or slightly depressed, dry, becoming 

 lustrous, often rivuloso-rimose when old, intense crimson; mid. 

 almost black or deep purple, becoming pale. St. even, equal, 

 or slightly attenuate upwards, white, sometimes clouded rose 

 or purplish. G. adnate, somewhat crowded, whitish to 

 yellowish, often red at edge. Flesh reddish under cuticle. 



Poisonous. Flesh mild, gills very acrid. Woods, mixed, grassy places ; 

 frequent. Aug. -Nov. 4^X4^x1 in. Must not be confounded with 1316. 



