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adnexed, crowded, connected by veins, often forked. Flesh white, 

 then ochraceous. Spores pale ochraceous, subglobose, 8-11 x 8-9 /it, 

 echinulate. Cystidia clavate, often slightly constricted below the 

 apex, 45-50 x 8-10/i, contents yellowish. Smell very strong. Taste 

 acrid. Woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1523. R. consobrina Fr. (= Russula livescens (Batsch) Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 1012, t. 1055. Consobrina, cousin. 



P. 7-12 cm., dark cinereous, or fuscous olivaceous, fleshy, fragile, 

 campanulate, then expanded, at length depressed, viscid; margin 

 membranaceous. St. 5-8 x 22-5 cm., white, at length becoming 

 cinereous, equal. Gills white, then greyish, free, forked, broad, crowded, 

 thick. Flesh white, cinereous under the pellicle. Spores pale ochraceous, 

 globose, 10/A, verrucose. Smell faint, taste very acrid. Coniferous 

 woods. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. sororia (Larb.) Fr. (= Russula consobrina Fr. var. intermedia 



Cke.) Fr. Icon. t. 173, fig. 1. Sororia, sisterly. 



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



subdistant gills, connected by veins. Woods, and pastures. July Oct. 



Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1524. R. pectinata (Bull.) Fr. (= Russula consobrina Fr. var. sororia 

 (Larb.) Cke.) Cke. lUus. no. 1024, t. 1101. 



Pectinata, like the teeth of a comb. 



P. 4-8 cm., toast brown, becoming pale tan, disc always darker, 

 fleshy, viscid, rigid, convex, then flattened and depressed, or concavo- 

 infundibuliform; margin thin, tuberculately-sulcate. St. 3-5 x 1- 

 2-5 cm., shining white, equal, or attenuated at the base, rigid, sub- 

 striate longitudinally. Gills whitish, attenuato-free, broader towards 

 the margin, equal, somewhat crowded. Flesh white, light yellowish 

 under the pellicle. Spores pale ochraceous, subglobose, 6-8 x 6-7 /n, 

 verrucose. Cystidia sparse, conico-cylindrical, 40-50 x 8-13/n, obtuse. 

 Smell unpleasant. Taste very acrid. Woods, and pastures. Aug. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1525. R. ochroleuca (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1025, t. 1049. 



&>%/009, sallow; \evic6s, white. 



P. 3-9 cm., yellow, becoming pale, convex, then flattened or de- 

 pressed, polished, viscid. St. 4-7 x 1-5-2 cm., white, becoming 

 cinereous, firm, equal, sometimes enlarged at the base, slightly re- 

 ticulately rugose. Gills white, becoming pale, rounded behind, free, 

 broader in front, somewhat equal, fragile. Flesh white, yellowish under 

 the pellicle. Spores white, globose, 8-11 /LI, echinulate. Smell pleasant, 

 taste acrid. Cystidia conical, 55-70 x 8-10)Li. Beech, and coniferous 

 woods. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



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