RUSSULA 469 



var. Clusii Fr. Vitt. t. 38, fig. 1, as Agaricus emeticm. 



Clusius, one of the earliest illustrators of fungi. 

 Differs from the type in the gills and flesh becoming yellow. Woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1535. R. luteo-tacta Eea. (= Russula sardonia Bres. non Fr.) Bres. 

 Fung. Trid. t. 94, as Russula sardonia Fr. 



Luteus, yellow; tacta, touched. 



P. 4-7 cm., rosy, or blood-red, soon becoming whitish in places and 

 spotted with yellow, convex, then plane and depressed, fleshy. St. 

 4-5 x 1-1-5 cm., white, or rosy, spotted with yellow, equal, rugose. 

 Gills white, exuding watery drops in wet weather, then spotted with 

 yellow, becoming yellowish when cut or bruised, adnate, crowded, some- 

 what forked. Flesh white, tinged yellowish when cut or bruised, reddish 

 under the cuticle. Spores white, globose, 6-8 /x, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Taste very acrid. Woods, and parks. Aug. Oct. Notuncommon. (v.v.) 



1536. R. atropurpurea (Krombh.) Maire. (= Russula rubra Cke. non 

 Fr.; Russula depallens Cke. an Fr.?; Russula purpurea Gill.; 

 Russula Clusii Bataille, an Fr.? Maire.) Cke. Illus. no. 997, 

 t. 1087. Ater, black; purpurea, purple. 



P. 5-9 cm., deep blood-red, almost black at the disc, and often yellowish 

 at first at the margin, hemispherical, then convexo-plane, and finally 

 depressed or infundibuliform, fleshy, firm, viscid, slightly rugosely 

 wrinkled ; margin thin, hardly striate in old age, often exceeding the 

 gills. St. 4-7 x 1-3 cm., white, unchangeable, or sometimes becoming 

 slightly stained with ochraceous brown, sometimes rosy in the middle, 

 base ochraceous, firm, somewhat equal, slightly rugoso-striate, apex 

 pruinose. Gills white, then yellowish, sinuato-free, attenuated behind, 

 broader in front, equal, rather crowded. Flesh whitish, either un- 

 changeable, or becoming slightly stained with ochraceous brown, reddish 

 purple under the cuticle. Spores pure white, subglobose, 9 x 8/x, verru- 

 cose, 1-guttulate. Smell slight, pleasant. Taste either mild, or acrid. 

 Woods, and under conifers. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. depallens (Cke.) Maire. Cke. Illus. no. 985, t. 1021. 



Depallens, becoming pale. 



Differs from the type in the pileus soon loosing its colour, and in 

 the stem and flesh becoming grey with age. Woods. Aug. Oct. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



VII. Pellicle of the pileus viscid, separable, possessing cystidia, 

 variously coloured. Margin rounded, generally striate. Flesh fragile. 

 Gills equal, fragile, rounded in front, free or somewhat free. Spores 

 cream ochraceous, or yellow ochraceous in the mass (rarely whitish 

 yellow in the mass but then the taste is mild, or only slightly acrid 

 when young and the pileus is never red). 



