RUSSULA 467 



fragile. Flesh white, reddish under the cuticle, cheesy. Spores pale 

 ochraceous, subglobose, 6-7 x Q/JL, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 conical, 55-65 x 10-12/x. Taste acrid. Woods especially pine. Aug. 

 Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1529. R. rosacea (Pers.) Fr. Rosacea, rosy. 

 P. 4-10 cm., rosy flesh colour, varying in intensity, becoming whitish, 



variegated with darker spots when dry, convex, then plane and um- 

 bilicate, or flexuose and incised, often irregular, compactly fleshy, 

 firm, viscid', margin acute. St. 4-5 x 2 cm., white, or reddish, equal, 

 or attenuated at the base, occasionally ventricose, pruinose. Gills 

 white, often coloured reddish on the edge near the margin of the pileus, 

 adnate, fairly broad, forked, edge unequal. Flesh white, reddish under 

 the pellicle, cheesy. Spores white, globose, 8/n, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Taste acrid. Woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1530. R. drimeia Cke. (= Russula expallens Gill.) Cke. Illus. no. 988, 

 t. 1023. Spifj,vs, pungent. 



P. 5-11 cm., bright purple to dark rose colour, becoming decoloured 

 with age, convex, then expanded and more or less depressed, scarcely 

 viscid when moist, opaque when dry, compact, firm; margin incurved, 

 slightly striate when old. St. 5-10 x 1-3 cm., tinged with purple, 

 equal, firm, sometimes rather mealy. Gills pale sulphur yellow, then 

 deeper yellow, adnexed, scarcely crowded, narrow, furcate at the base. 

 Flesh yellowish, then white, reddish under the cuticle of the p. and st. 

 Spores pale ochraceous, subglobose, 8-9 x 8/i, verrucose, or slightly 

 echinulate. Cystidia fusiform, 50-65 x 8-10jLt. Taste very acrid. 

 Coniferous woods. Sept. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Queletii (Fr.) Bataille. Cke. lUus. no. 1019, t. 1028. 



Lucien Quelet, the eminent French mycologist. 

 Differs from the type in the white or wax coloured gills which exud 

 drops that on drying leave azure-blue-cinereous, or pallid olivaceous 

 spots. Woods. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1531. R. rubra (Krombh.) Bres. (non Lam. et DC.). Fung. Trid. t. 203. 



Rubra, red. 



P. 4-10 cm., red, rosy or whitish at the margin, fleshy, convex then 

 plane and depressed, dry, sometimes somewhat pruinose St. 3-5- 

 7 x 1-3 cm., white, often becoming somewhat cinereous with age, equal, 

 often attenuated or incrassated at the base, rugulose. Gills white, then 

 ochraceous, sinuato-adnexed, or rounded behind, crowded or some- 

 what crowded, forked, connected by veins. Flesh white, rosy under 

 the cuticle. Spores ochraceous, subglobose, 8-9 x 7-8^, verrucose or 

 slightly echinulate. Cystidia clavate, 60-70 x 6-10/x,. Smell pleasant, 

 taste very acrid. Deciduous woods. Aug. Oct. Notuncommon. (v.v.) 



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