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In woods. July — Sept. Common. [United States.] 



Generally rancid and stinking, bat at times fragrant ; it is not uncommoD 

 to find it as sweet smelling as Ag.odonu, Ball. — W. G. S. 



Gregarious. Pileng 4-5 in. broad, at first convex ; the margin broadly 

 folded inwards, convex, at length more or less depressed, with the margin 

 somewhat vaalted, fleshy in the centre ; margin thin, farrowed and tabercled, 

 the striae appearing as if a glutinous membrane were stretched over them, 

 dirty yellow, rather brittle. Gills forked, dirty white or yellowish, mode- 

 rately broad, connected by veins. Stem 3-4 in. high, above 1 in. thick, ob- 

 tuse, incrassated at the base, ruggedly hollow withiu, as if eaten by snails, 

 white or with a dirty yellow tinge, depresso-tomentose, beneath the gills 

 minutely pitted longitudinally, flesh rather yellow. Highly acrid, odour very 

 strong and penetrating, empyreumatic, somewhat resembling that of prussic 

 acid, but exceedingly disagreeable. — M.J.B. Spores minutely echinulate, 

 almost globular, diameter "00032 in. 



Sect. 5. Fragiles. 



629. Russula exnetica. Fr. "Emetic Kussula." 



Acrid. Pilous fleshy, expanded or depressed, polished, shining; 

 margin patent, at length sulcate; flesh white beneath the red- 

 dish separable cuticle ; stem spongy-solid, fi.rm, elastic, even, 

 white or reddish ; gills free, equal, broad, somewhat distant, 

 white. — Fr. Epicr.j). 357. Lenz. f. 15. Buxh. v. t. 47,/. 1. Ann. 

 N.H.no.SSS. Kro7nbh.t.66,f.A-7 ? Cooke B.F.t 22. Eng. Fl. 

 V. p. 21. Barla. t. 14,/. 4-9. Smith P.M.f. 21. 



In woods. July — Dec. Poisonous. [United States.] 



Pileus 2-5 in. broad, glutinous when young, smooth, hemispherical, at 

 length plane, depressed in the centre ; margin thin, striato-sulcate, purple, 

 rose-red, bluish, fuscous, yellow, or even white ; gills rather distant, broad, 

 rigid, thickish, connected by veins, equal, with a very few smaller inter- 

 spersed, always white; stem 2-3 in. high, longitudinally rugulose, firm, 

 solid, white, or tinged with the colour of the pileus, very acrid and poisonous. 

 — Eng. Fl. Known by its very acrid taste and free gills, between which and 

 the stem is a distinct channel. — M. J. B. Spores echinulate, almost globular, 

 diameter -00028 in. 



630. Russula ochroleuca. Fr, '' Ochrey Russula." 



Acrid. Pileus fleshy, expanded or depressed, polished, cuticle 

 adnate, turning pale ; margin patent, becoming even ; stem 

 spongy-stuffed, firm, reticulato-rugulose, white then cinereous ; 

 gills rounded behind, connected, broad, subequal, white then 

 pallid.— Fr.i^/cr.;). 358. Kromhh. t. 64,/. 7-9. Larhr. 1. 19./ 1. 

 Buxh. V. t. 4:6, f. 2. Ann. N.H. no. 707. 



In fir woods. Sept. [United States.] 



