460 RUSSULA 



minutely cracked. St. 3-5 x 2-4 cm., white, equal, or ventricose, 

 pruinose. Gills whitish cream colour, free, very broad, thick, distant, 

 forked. Flesh white, compact. Spores very pale ochraceous, globose, 

 7-S/A, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Edible. Woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1505. R. incarnate Quel. Cke. Illus. no.^90, 1. 1071, as Russula lactea 

 Pers. var. incarnata Quel. Incarnata, flesh-colour. 



P. 6-10 cm., white, tinged with rose, at length tan colour, convex, then 

 depressed, minutely mealy, then cracked into areolae. St. 4-6 x 1-5- 

 2 cm., white, firm, pruinose. Gills whitish cream colour, adnate, broad, 

 forked, rigid. Flesh white. Spores very pale ochraceous, globose, 

 8-lOju, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Edible. Woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1506. R. virescens (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 991, t. 1039. 



Virescens, green. 



P. 6-12 cm., deep or pallid green, globose, then expanded, at length 

 depressed, often unequal, the flocculose cuticle broken up into patches, 

 or warts. St. 5-10 x 23 cm., white, or whitish cream colour, firm, 

 pruinose, subrivulose. Gills white, then whitish cream colour, free, or 

 adnate, thick, somewhat crowded, sometimes forked. Flesh white, 

 not very compact. Spores very pale ochraceous, globose, 6-8/A, verru- 

 cose, 1-guttulate. Cystidia narrowly fusiform, apex obtuse, 2-3/u, in 

 diam., 55-65 x 8-10/A. Taste mild. Edible. Woods. July Oct. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



1507. R. lepida Fr. (= Russula lepida Fr. var. pulcherrima Gillet.) 

 Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 204. Lepida, charming. 



P. 5-10 cm., blood-red-rose, becoming pale, and somewhat tan-leather 

 colour at the disc, convex, then expanded, rarely depressed, pruinose, 

 appearing under a lens as if stippled, at length often rimoso-squamulose. 

 St. 3-5-7 x 1-5-2 cm., white, often tinged with rose colour, especially 

 on one side, or at the base, equal, or attenuated at the base, very firm. 

 Gills whitish cream colour, the edge often minutely dentate and red, 

 especially towards the margin of the pileus, rounded behind, or at- 

 tenuate, rather thick, somewhat crowded, often forked, connected by 

 veins. Flesh white, firm, cheesy. Spores very pale ochre in the mass, 

 hyaline under the microscope, globose, 8-10/x, echinulate. Cystidia 

 "cylindrical, rounded, 60-90 x 15/u." Rick. Smell pleasant. Taste 

 pleasant, then very slowly acrid. Edible. Woods. Aug. Oct. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 

 var. alba Quel. Alba, white. 



Differs from the type in the pruinose, milk-white p. sometimes 

 tinged with rose colour, and the white, mealy st. Woods. Aug. Sept. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



