KUSSSULA. 47 



Russula olivacea. Fr. 



Mild . Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh wliite, becoming yellowish, 

 thickish at the disc, margin thin; convex then expanded and 

 depressed, minutely sqnanmlosely silky, margin straight, 

 even, dingy purple with an olive tinge, or entirely brownish- 

 olive ; gills adnexed, broad, forked and mixed with shorter 

 ones, yellow; stem 2-3 in. long, f in thick, ventricose, palo 

 rose-colour, spongily-stuffed ; spores globose, minutely granu- 

 lar, yellow, 9-10 /x diameter. 



Bussula olivacea, Fries, Epicr., p. 356; Cke., Hdbk., p. 326; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1041. 



In pine woods, &c. 



A well-marked species, distinguished by the dark-coloured, 

 minutely broken up surface of the pileus, rose-coloured stem, 

 and yellow gills. Differs from H. rubra in the deeper yellow 

 gills and the unpolished pileus. J?, alutacea differs in the 

 striate and tuber culose margin of the pileus : the same 

 features along with the powdered gills separate B. Integra 

 from the present species. 



Russula Linnaei. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh everywhere thick, com- 

 pactly spongy, white, rigid ; plane then depressed, sometimes 

 wavy, even, glabrous, polished, dry, without a separate 

 pellicle, all one colour, deep blood-red or dark rose ; margin 

 spreading, obtuse, not striate ; gills slightly decurrent, 

 rather thick, not crowded, broad, fragile, sparingly connected 

 by veins, somewhat anastomosing behind, and with shorter 

 ones intermixed, white, yellow when dry ; spores white, sub- 

 globose, minutely echinulate, 9-11 X 8-9 /x.; stem lJ-2^ in. 

 long, 1 in. and more thick, slightly ventricose, indistinctly 

 fibrillosely reticulated, deep blood-red, firm but soft and 

 spongy within, and sometimes becoming hollow. 



Bussula Linnaei, Fries, Epicr., p. 356 ; Cke., Illustr., ph 

 1026; Cke., Hdbk., p. 326. 



In woods. 



Distinguished among mild species by the even blood-red 

 pileus and stem. 



Habit exactly that of B. emetica. Substance truly floccose 

 but very compact, firm, thick. Stem deep blood-red (but 

 perhaps varies to white), indistinctly fibrillosely reticulate* 



