HEREFORDSHIRE FUNGUSES. 
RUSSULA LUTAA, FR. 
YELLOW RUSSULA. 
This delicate species has a wide range of growth, and is usually to be found 
on the short turf of high woodlands, or tree-shaded commons. 
Description.—Plant, fragile, mild in taste. Pileus, 1-2 in. broad, rather firm, 
plano-depressed, with a viscid yellow cuticle becoming pale, rarely white, margin 
even. Stem, white. soft, slender, more or less hollow. Gills, free, crowded, con- 
nected by veins, and of an egg yellow colour. Flesh, white. Spores, yellow, 
echinulate, diameter .000,32 in. Jries’ Evicrisis, p. 451. Engl. jl., V., p. 21. 
‘ Hand-book of British Fungi,” I., 226. Cooke's ** Grevillea,” Vol. VI., pl. 91. 
Not unfrequent in Herefordshire; Dinedor Common; Haywood Forest ; 
Whitfield ; Downton, &c. 
AGARICUS (FLAMMULA) SAPINEUS, Fr. 
BRIGHT SPORED FLAMMULA. 
This very fine species is remarkable for ‘the bright colour of its spores. It 
usually grows in clusters on fallen branches of fir, or chips of wood, and most 
commonly on charcoal heaps in the woods. It is very variable in size, and 
especially as to the breadth and mode of attachment of the gills. 
Description. —-Pileus, 1-4in. broad, compact, convexo-plane, very obtuse, finely 
flucculoso-squamulose, then cracked, disk of a golden yellow colour, subopaque, 
with the margin more pale and shining. Stem, usually short and thick, solid, 
stuffed, or hollow, often compressed and lacunose, rooting, without a ring, of a 
yellow colour, with vestiges of the yellow veil scarcely manifest. Gills, adnate, 
broad, of a golden yellow and then tawny cinnamon. Odour, strong. Spores, 
“00032 x 0002 in. Sys. Myc. I., p. 239. Engl. fl., V., p. 95. B. & Br. Ann., N. H. 
1865, No. 1006. Pers. ic. et Descr., t. 4. f. 7. Handbook of British Fungi, Vol. 
I., p. 124. Cooke's Grevillea, Vol. VI., pl. 91. 
This species was brought to the Fungus Exhibition of the Woolhope Club in 
1867, by the Rev. Wm. Houghton, M.A., from the charcoal heaps of the Wrekin. 
It was then very rare as a British plant, but it has since become more common. 
The drawing was made from a specimen sent by Mr. Renny, from Chatsworth, in 
Derbyshire. 
