466 RUSSULA 



var. claro-flava (Grove) Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1198, t. 1196. 



Clarus, bright ;flavus, yellow. 



Differs from the type in the bright chrome-yellow pileus, and in the 

 gills becoming pale lemon-yellow. Amongst grass in damp places. 



var. granulosa (Cke.) Rea. Cke. Illus. no. 1026, t. 1038. 



Granulosa, mealy. 



Differs from the type in the cuticle of the pileus and stem breaking 

 up into minute granules, which are snow-white at the apex of the stem, 

 fuscousbelow. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1526. R. fellea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 173, fig. 2. Fellea, full of gall. 

 Entirely straw-colour. P. 3-9 cm., often with a deeper yellowish tinge, 



disc darker, thinly fleshy, convex, then plane, viscid; margin striate 

 when old. St. 5-6 x 1-2-5 cm., equal. Gills exuding watery drops, then 

 spotted with yellow, adnate, crowded, thin, narrow, forked, obsoletely 

 connected by veins. Flesh whitish, then concolorous with the gills. 

 Spores very pale ochraceous, globose, 8/x,, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia conical, 55-65 x 7-9/A. Taste very acrid and bitter. Beech 

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



1527. R. subfoetens W. G. Smith. Cke. Illus. no. 1016, t. 1047. 



Sub, some what ;foetens, stinking. 



P. 4-8 cm., yellowish white, then ochraceous, especially on the disc, 

 firm, rigid, convex, then plane or depressed, viscid; margin thin, 

 translucid, tuberculately sulcate. St. 5-6 x 1-2-5 cm., white, becoming 

 tinged with yellow, subequal, or attenuated at the base, firm. Gills 

 white, becoming yellow, adnate, thick, distant, narrow, branched. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, subglobose, 7-8 x 6-7 /A, echinulate. Smell 

 somewhat disagreeable, taste slightly acrid. Grassy places, and on 

 lawns under beeches. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



V. Pellicle of the pileus viscid, more or less separable, possessing 

 numerous cystidia, purplish. Margin straight, acute, somewhat 

 striate. Gills more or less unequal and forked, generally narrow 

 and acutely attenuated in front, often adnate. Flesh firm. Taste 

 acrid. Spores white cream, or ochraceous yellow in mass. 



1528. R. sanguinea (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 981, t. 1019. 



Sanguinea, bloody. 



P. 5-9 cm., blood-red, or becoming pale round the spreading acute 

 margin, fleshy, firm, convex, obtuse, then depressed and infundibuli- 

 form, disc generally gibbous, polished, moist in damp weather. St. 

 410 x 1-2 cm., reddish, rarely white, at first contracted at the apex, 

 then equal, firm, wrinkled striate, pruinose. Gills white, then cream 

 colour, decurrent, rarely forked, crowded, narrow, connected by veins, 



