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edge turning reddish when bruised, and then finally reddish brown, 

 especially towards the margin of the pileus. Flesh white, becoming red- 

 dish in the stem. Spores white, pruniform, apiculate, 6-7 x 4/u,, 

 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant, like aniseed. Parks, and pastures. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



895. H. penarius Fr. Sverig. atl. Svamp. t. 48. 



Penarius, for provisions. 



P. 7-10 cm., white, then tan colour, opaque, umbonate, then obtuse, 

 hemispherical, then flattened, generally dry, hard; margin at first 

 involute, exceeding the gills, undulate when flattened. St. 4 cm. 

 x 12 mm. at apex, pale white, often yellowish at the base, compact, 

 hard, attenuated at the base into a fusiform root, ventricose to the neck, 

 then attenuated upwards, or wholly fusiform-attenuated, smeared 

 with tenacious easily dried slime, scabrous. Gills white, or tan, adnato- 

 decurrent, distant, thick, 6-8 mm. broad, rigid, veined. Flesh white, 

 compact, thick. Spores white, "ovate-spherical or ovate-oblong, 

 7-8 x 3-4/A" Sacc. Smell pleasant, taste sweet. Edible. Oak woods. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



896. H. pulverulentus B. & Br. Quel. Soc. sc. n. de Rouen (1879), 

 t. 3, fig. 9. Pulverulentus, dusted. 



P. 8-18 mm., shining white, pulvinate, viscous; margin involute, 

 tomentose. St. 18 x 2-4 mm., white, wholly powdered with rose- 

 coloured meal, nearly equal, attenuated at the extreme base. Gills 

 whitish, decurrent, thick, obtuse at the edge. Spores white, globose, 

 7/u,. Amongst pine leaves. Nov. Dec. Rare. 



**Reddish. 



897. H. russula (Schaeff.) Quel. (- Tricholoma russula Fr.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 1116, t. 926, as Tricholoma russula Schaeff. 



Russula, reddish. 



P. 10-20 cm., flesh colour, or purplish with deeper coloured streaks, 

 paler and whitish at the tomentose margin, viscid, gibbous, convexo- 

 plane, then depressed. St. 6-12 x 1-2 cm., white, stained reddish, 

 apex white, farinaceous. Gills whitish, then spotted with bright red, 

 sinuate, or emarginate, thin, rather crowded. Flesh white. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5fi or 6-7 x 4-5/n, slightly depressed on 

 one side, with a large central gutta. Taste sweet, or slightly bitter. In 

 deciduous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



898. H. erubescens Fr. (= Limacium rubescens (Pers.).) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 876, t. 888. Erubescens, becoming red. 



P. 5-10 cm., whitish, spotted with rose, slightly viscid, gibbous, then 

 convexo-plane. St. 5-8 x 2 cm., whitish stained reddish, tinged yellowish 



