72 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Yar. intermedia^ Cke., Hdbk., p. 329 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 

 1056. 



Habit, size, and colour of typical form ; pileus fleshy, de- 

 pressed, viscid, margin thin, striate ; stem usually attenu- 

 ated downwards, becoming cinereous and striate; gills dirty 

 Avhite ; spores 10 ya diameter. 



On the ground under trees. 



Russula pectinata. Fr. 



Acrid. Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh compact, white, 

 yellowish below the difficultly separable pellicle ; convex 

 then expanded and depressed or concavely infundibuliform, 

 viscid and brownish-tan at first, then dr}^ paler tan, diso 

 always darker ; margin thin, tuberculosely sulcate, often, 

 deformed ; gills narrowed behind and nearly free, broader 

 towards the margin, rather narrow, somewhat crowded, 

 equal, simple, white ; stem about 2 in. long, |-1 in. thick^ 

 longitudinally striate, white, base often attenuated, spongy 

 stuffed; smell weak but unpleasant; spores 8-9 fx diameter. 



Bussula pectinata, Fries, Epicr., p. 358 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 332 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1101. 



In woods. 



Large, rigid, smell weak, but nauseous. (Fries.) 



The dingy colour somewhat resembles M. consohrina, var. 

 sororia, but is rather lighter, and also differs in the tubercu- 

 lose margin of the pileus, and in the crowded gills not being 

 ■connected by veins. Smell resembling that of B, foetens. 



Russula sardonia. Fr. 



Acrid. Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh}^, compact, convex then 

 plane, rarely depressed but usually wavy, even, cuticle ad- 

 nate, viscid in moist weather, soon becoming discoloured, and 

 often spotted ; colour very variable, sometimes pallid and 

 spotted with yellow, or dingy yellow, sometimes reddisli» 

 opaque, margin even ; flesh firm, chees}', white ; gills adnate, 

 .<dosely crowded, broad, somewhat forked, white, exuding 

 drops of water in damp weather, hence spotted with yellow- 

 when dry; stem 11-2 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, firm, even, 

 Avhite or reddish, solid but becoming spongy inside ; spores 

 9-10 fx diameter. 



Bussula sardonia, Fries, Epicr., p. 353; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 323 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1037 ? 



