RUSSULA 461 



1508. R. Linnaei Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 172, fig. 3. 



Carlos Linnaeus, the eminent Swedish botanist. 

 P. 7-12 cm., unicolorous, dark purple, blood-red, or bright rose, 

 opaque, not becoming pale, convex, then plane and depressed, some- 

 times repand, dry, pruinose. St. 4-6 x 2-3 cm., blood-red, rarely 

 white, somewhat ventricose, firm, spongy within, obsoletely fibrilloso- 

 reticulate. Gills white, then ochraceous, adnate, subdecurrent, rather 

 thick, broad, fragile, slightly connected by veins, not crowded, some- 

 what anastomosing behind. Flesh white, compact, firm. Spores pale 

 ochraceous, elliptically globose, echinulate, 8-11 x Sp,. Cystidia "on 

 surface of gill sparse, cylindrical, pointed, 50-60 x 8-12 p" Rick. 

 Taste mild. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



1509. R. azurea Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 24. Azurea, sky-blue. 

 P. 3-6 cm., bright blue, margin sometimes lilac, becoming pale, con- 

 vex, then plane or depressed, fleshy, soon dry, constantly minutely 

 granular', margin scarcely striate in old age. St. 3--5 x 11-5 cm., 

 white, ventricose, or attenuated at the base, somewhat rugulose, firm. 

 Gills white, attenuato-adnate, crowded, equal, forked. Flesh white. 

 Spores white, subglobose, 8-9 x S/A, verrucose. Cystidia fusiform, 

 60-70 x 12-13jn. Taste mild. Edible. Coniferous woods, and under 

 conifers. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1510. R. olivacea (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1001, t. 1041. 



Olivacea, olivaceous. 



P. 612 cm., dingy purple, then olivaceous, or wholly fuscous-oliva- 

 ceous, convex, then plane and depressed, fleshy, slightly silky and 

 squamulose. St. 5-8 x 1-52 cm., rose colour, or pallid, firm, ventri- 

 cose. Gills bright yellow, adnexed, wide, with shorter and forked ones 

 intermixed, crowded. Flesh white, becoming yellowish. Spores pale 

 ochraceous, globose, 10/x, punctate. Cystidia "subulate, 50-75 x 

 8-12/i," Rick. Taste mild. Edible. Fir woods. Aug. Uncommon. 



1511. R. elegans Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 25. Elegans, neat. 



P. 3-5 cm., bright rosy fiesh colour, soon becoming ochraceous at the 

 circumference, convex, then somewhat depressed, fleshy, thin, viscid; 

 everywhere densely granulate; margin tuberculosely striate when old. 

 St. 3-5 x 1 cm., white, becoming ochraceous at the somewhat thickened 

 base, rather rugulose. Gills whitish, becoming either wholly, or par- 

 tially orange ochre, attenuated behind, adnexed, or slightly rounded, 

 very crowded, equal, rarely furcate. Flesh white, becoming ochraceous 

 with age. Spores whitish in the mass, pale greenish hyaline or yellowish 

 under the microscope, globose, 8-10/z, strongly echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "sparse, subulate, 50 x 8-9 JJL" Rick. Taste acrid when old. 

 Coniferous woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



