40 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Large, usually sLowy, taste mild and pleasant ; at length; 

 truly soft and very fragile. Known from B. Integra by the 

 gills not being powdery with the spores. (Fries.) 



Gills very broad, up to | in., deep ochraceous tan when 

 fully developed ; never powdery with the spores, a cha- 

 racter which at once separates the present species from 

 JR. integra, the only one with which it can be confounded. 

 Pileus very variable in colour; deep blood-red, clear rose- 

 colour, dark-purple, greenish, olive, &c. 



Pileus 3 in. broad, fleshy, smooth, viscid when moist^ 

 depressed, margin at first even, more or less furrowed and 

 tubercled when old ; j^ink, livid, olive, &c. Gills broad, 

 equal, sometimes slightly forked, ventricose, free, connected 

 by veins. S23ores yellow. Stem Ij in. long, 1 in. thick, 

 blunt, surface longitudinally Avrinkled or grooved, solid,, 

 spongy within, smooth, white, sometimes yellow. Tastes 

 mild, pleasant, acrid when old. (Berk.) 



Russula Integra. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 4-5 in. acro.^s, flesh rather thin, white ; 

 convex then expanded and depressed ; cuticle separable,, 

 viscid ; margin thin, at length coarsely striate and tubercu- 

 lose ; colour variable, of various shades of red or green ; 

 gills almost free, veiy broad, up to | in., equal, rather distant ; 

 white then pale yellow, powdery with the ochraceous- 

 spores; stem about 2 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, nearly- even,, 

 often more or less swollen in the middle, or ventricose,. 

 white, stuffed: spores pale ochraceous, echinulate, 9-10 /x. 

 diameter ; cystidia absent. 



Bussula mtcgra, Fries, Epicr., p. 3G0 ; Cke., Hdbk.^ 

 p. 334; Cke., lllustr., pi. 1034 and 1093. 



In woods. 



Agreeing in many points with M. alutacea, but distin- 

 guished by the much paler yellow gills being powdered 

 with the spores at maturity. 



Taste mild, but often astringent. The most variable of 

 all species especially in the colour of the j^ileus, which is-, 

 tj'pically red, but also verging on bluish, bay, olive, &c. 

 The essential points are as follows. Stem spongily-stuff'ed, 

 usually stout, at first short, conical, then clavate or ventri- 

 cose, about 3 in. long, clear white. Pileus fleshy, campanu- 



