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coloured ; stem spongy or compact, rather striate, white or lemon- 

 coloured ; gills rounded behind, free, broad, equal, shining, edge 

 lemon-yellow. — Fr. Epkr.p. 360. Krapf. t. 5. Schceff. t. 15,/. 1- 

 3. iCm/iJA.?. 66,/. 8-11. Ann.N.H.no.^oh. 



In woods. Aug. Bristol. 



A most splendid species, distingaislied by its golden yellow shining pilens, 

 and yellow-margined gills. — M. J. B. 



Stem firm, 2-3 in. long, cylindrical, obsoletely striate. Pileus 2-3 in. broad. 

 Flesh lemon-coloured beneath the adnate cuticle. 



635. Russula veternosa. Fr. " Sleepy Russula." 



Acrid. Pileus loosely fleshy, plane, then depressed, polished, 

 cuticle thin, adnate, becoming pale ; margin membranaceous, 

 even ; stem spongy, then hollow, soft, equal, even, fragile, white ; 

 gills adnate, narrow, broader behind, unequal, straw-coloured. — 

 Fr.Epicr.p. Sd4:. Faul.t.74,,f. 3. B.^'Br. Ann. N.H. {lS66),no. 

 1132. Kromhh.t. 66,/. 18, 19. 



On the ground. Chatteris. 



Flesh white, spongy. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, rose-coloured or flesh-coloured, 

 Boon with the disc whitish or yellowish, 



636. Russula nitida. Fr. " Shining Russula." 



Nauseous, rather fcetid. Pileus somewhat fleshy, becoming 

 rigid, convexo-plane then depressed, shining, discoid ; margin 

 thin, from the first striate and tuberculose ; flesh white ; stem 

 stuffed, soft, white, growing pallid ; gills adnexed, seceding, then 

 crowded, shining, white, then yellow, naked. — Fr.Epicr. 7?. 362. 

 Schceff. t. 254. Krombh. t. Q^J. 1-3. Berk. Outl. t. 13,/. 7. Fag. 

 Fl.Y.p.21. 



In woods. King's Cliffe. [United States.] 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, convex, becoming nearly plane or depressed, viscid 

 when moist ; margin very thin, at first even, afterwards furrowed and tuber- 

 cled, mostly yellow, but occasionally tinged with purple ; gills bufi", connected 

 by veins, all equal, free ; spores pale yellow; stem 1-2 in. long, j in. thick, 

 Bpongy, at length hollow, white or yellowish, covered with minute white 

 meal' — M.J. B. 



637. Russula alutacea. Fr. " Tan-coloured Russula." 



Mild. Pileus fleshy, expanded or depressed, with a viscid cu- 

 ticle, growing pale ; margin thin, at length striate, tuberculose ; 

 flesh white ; stem spongy, solid, stout, white or reddish, even ; 

 gills at first free, thick, equal, somewhat distant, yellow, then 



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