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coloured spores. When torn or otherwise dissipated, 

 the remains of the veil may be usually discerned as 

 stains upon the bulbous stipe ; but the violet tinge 

 upon the stipe is not constant, nor is the pileus 

 violet except when quite young. It is by no means 

 common. 



Most of the smaller specimens of fungi, which 

 grew upon leaves or on the ground, were damaged. 

 We made out, however, that the subgenus Myxanim 

 is well represented. 



Fig. 226.— Pileus of Cop- 

 rinus plicatilis. 



•Fig. 225. — -Vertical section of 

 Coprinus comatus, showing 

 the narrow pileus and scaly 

 cuticle, crowded gills and 

 cavity of the stem filled with 

 filmy reticular tissue, sup- 

 ported by a central columella . 



Fig. 227. — Stem of Afaras- 

 tnius arcades covered with 

 a woven villous coat (mag. ) 



^.•-.ovr;. '0.0. 



Fig. 228. — Vesicular trama of 

 Lactarius and Russula. 



Fig. 229. — Vertical section of Hygrophorus psittacinus showing 

 the hollow splitting stipe, &c. 



Hygrophorus is characterized by its waxy hyme- 

 nium, hymenophorum continuous with the stem and 

 descending unchanged into the sharp-edged gills. 

 Specimens of H. psittacinus we obtained from a wet 

 pasturage : the colour of pileus, gills, and stem is of 

 a crocus yellow, tinged here and there, on the gills 

 especially, with grass-green in the young plants, the 

 stipes hollow and splitting ; the hymenium, too, has 

 ■3. tendency to separate from the trama when dry. 



Lactarius is well represented. L. subdulcis is ex- 

 tremely plentiful. The gills and flesh are milky in 

 this genus, the trama vesiculose, hymenophorum 

 confluent with the stem ; two or three of this species 

 which are of a rufous or cinnamon-brown colour are 

 much alike ; the milk of L. seriffutis, however, is 

 watery, and that of L. fuliginosus turns yellowish. 

 A specimen of Z. blcnnius, pileus greenish-grey, 

 gills white, was also gathered. 



22p. — Vertical section of a Lactarius. 



Fig. 231.— Vertical section of Russula nigricatts. 



Fig. 232. — Hymenophyllum of a Russula confluent with the 

 vesicular trama {R. hcteropliylla). 



Equally abundant with Lactarius were species ot 

 Russula. The structural characteristics of this genus 

 are precisely the same as those of the preceding, 

 except that the flesh is not milky. Very common 

 was Russula heterophylla, pileus of all shades of dull 

 yellow, greenish, purplish, and dull red ; frequent 



