CEEPIDOTUS. BUSSULA 457 



cottony flocci. Gills day colour, ventricose, edge whitish. Flesh con- 

 colon 'ous, thin. Spores brown, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5 fi, with a 

 large central gutta. Dead branches, and decaying wood. March. 

 Bare, (v.v.) 



1494. C. luteolus Lamb. Luteolus, yellowish. 

 P. clear yellow, then pale, thin, stipitate at first, then resupinate 



and st. disappearing, tomentose. Gills orange yellow, then cinnamon, 

 crowded. Spores rusty. 



1495. C. Parisotii Pat. Parisot. 

 P. 5-6 mm., bright lemon yellow, sessile, velvety tomentose with simple, 



or branched thin hairs ; margin incurved, attached to the support above 

 by some white fibrils, with an extremely short stem below which 

 terminates on the under side of the p. in a yellowish white, projecting, 

 velvety heap. Gills reddish, unequal, the longer ones reaching the 

 central mass, very distant, thick. Spores ochraceous, hyaline, or 

 granular, oval, apiculate, 4-5 x 2/A. On twigs. Rare. 



1496. C. proboscideus Fr. Trpofioa-icLs, an elephant's trunk. 

 P. 2-3 cm., ochraceous, sometimes white, fleshy, elongate shell- 

 shaped, or trumpet-shaped, more prolonged on the one side, cottony. 

 St. conical, very short, really only a continuation of the p., base 

 cottony. Gills whitish, then concolorous, or watery cinnamon, thin, 

 fairly distant. Rotten wood, fallen branches, and wooden ceiling. 

 Dec. Rare. 



II. Receptacle fleshy, trama vesiculose, and traversed 



by lacticiferous vessels. Spores white, or yellow. 



Latex watery, uncoloured. 



Russula Fr. 

 (Russulus, reddish.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central, fleshy. Gills adnate, sinuato- 

 adnate, adnexed, free, or decurrent, rigid, fragile, edge acute. Spores 

 white, or yellow, rarely greenish; globose, subglobose, or elliptical, 

 echinulate, verrucose, subreticulate, or with anastomosing ridges and 

 spines, continuous. Cystidia present, or absent. Growing on the 

 ground, rarely on wood. 



I. P. fleshy throughout, margin more or less involute, pellicle slightly 

 developed, dry, adnate. Flesh compact, firm. Gills unequal, 

 alternate. Spores white in the mass. 



*Flesh not changing colour, gills narrow, decurrent. 



1497. R. delica Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 201. Delica, weaned. 

 P. 5-8 cm., white, becoming spotted with light brown, convex, um- 



