RUSSULA 



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Cystidia abundant, conical, 50-60 x 7-8/4. Taste mild, becoming 

 acrid. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1516. R. fingibilis Britz. Cke. Illus. no. 1030, t. 1048. 



Fingibilis, imaginary. 



P. 5 cm., yellow, disc darker, convex, then plane or depressed, 

 fleshy at the disc, viscid. St. 2-5-4 x 1 cm., white, equal, soft. Gills 

 white, narrowed behind, almost free, rather crowded, unequal, thin. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 9x7/4, minutely 

 echinulate. Taste mild. Amongst grass under trees. July. Un- 

 common. 



1517. R. furcata (Pers.) Fr. (= Russula bifida (Bull.) Schroet.) Barla, 

 Champ. Nice, t. 16, figs. 1-9. Furcata, forked. 



P. 6-12 cm., green, becoming somewhat ochraceous at the disc with 

 age, convex, then plane or depressed, sometimes infundibuliform, 

 fleshy, viscid in wet weather, polished in dry weather; margin thin. 

 St. 4-6 x 1-5-2 cm., white, equal, or attenuated downwards, firm. 

 Gills shining white, sometimes becoming spotted with brown when old, 

 attenuated at both ends, adnato-decurrent, forked from the base, more 

 rarely higher up, somewhat distant, rather thick. Flesh white, brown- 

 ish under the separable pellicle. Spores white, globose, 6-8/4, minutely 

 verrucose, 1-guttulate. Cystidia clavate, 45-60 x 8-1 1 p. Taste mild, 

 becoming slightly bitter when old especially in the gills. Woods, and 

 lawns. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. pictipes Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 979, t. 1086. 



Pictus. painted; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the slightly striate margin of the pileus, in 

 the stem being rosy at the apex and tinted with green at the base, and in 

 the rosy flesh beneath the cuticle of the pileus. Woods and under trees. 

 Aug. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. ochroviridis Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 980, t. 1100. 



w^po?, pale yellow; viridis, green. 



Differs from the type in the paler greenish ochre pileus, the narrower 

 gills, rugose stem, and fuliginous flesh when cut. Woods. Aug. 



1518. R. mitisRea. Mitis, mild. 

 P. 6-8 cm., disc yellowish, surrounded by purplish mouse colour, or 



pale rose and purple, becoming yellowish towards the circumference, 

 convex, then piano-expanded and depressed, spongy but firm, viscid, 

 pellicle easily separable; margin thin, pellucidly striate, tuberculate 

 when old. St. 4-5 x 1-5 cm., white, attenuated downwards, rugulose. 

 Gills white, then tinged faint straw colour, adnate, attenuated at both 

 ends, branched from the base or higher up, scarcely any intermediate 



