472 BUSSULA 



Flesh white, lilac beneath the thin, separable pellicle. Spores ochra- 

 ceous, elliptical, 8 x 7/x, echinulate. Taste mild, slightly acrid in the 

 gills of young specimens. Cystidia "lanceolate, 60-90 x 10-15^i" 

 Rick. Coniferous woods, and under conifers. Sept. Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1544. R. graminicolor (Seer.) Quel. (= Russula aeruginea (Lindb.) 

 Fr.) Fr. Icon. t. 173, fig. 3, as Russula aeruginea Lindb. 



Gramen, grass; color, colour. 



P. 5-14 cm., aeruginous-green, disc darker, slightly brownish bistre, 

 convex, then plane and depressed, fleshy, fragile, pellicle separable ; 

 margin paler, striate. St. 5-12 x 2-5-4 cm., white, firm, equal, or 

 attenuated at the base, rugose. Gills white, then cream, sometimes 

 spotted with brown when old, slightly adnexed, attenuated behind, 

 broad in front, often connate two by two at the base. Flesh white, 

 fragile. Spores cream colour in the mass, elliptical, 5-8 x 6- 7/n, echinu- 

 late. Cystidia "abundant, lanceolate, 69-95 x 8-12/z, granular in 

 the upper part" Rick. Taste acrid when young, then only in the 

 gills when old. Under birches, and in pine woods. May Oct. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



1545. R. chamaeleontina Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1054, t. 1098. 



^afjLai\ea)v, the chameleon. 



P. 2-5 4 cm., flesh colour, rosy blood-red, purplish lilac, then soon 

 changing colour, becoming yellow at the disc, and at length wholly yelloir, 

 soon plane, thinly fleshy, viscid, pellicle separable; margin slightly 

 striate when old. St. 2-6 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, equal, pruinose, 

 slightly striate, fragile. Gills light yellow, then darker yellow, more or 

 less adnexed, thin, crowded, equal. Flesh white, fragile. Spores ochra- 

 ceous, globose, 6-7 jit, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "sparse, subu- 

 late, 50-60 x 8-10/4 " Rick. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, and downs. 

 Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1546. R. roseipes (Seer.) Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 40. 



Rosens, rosy; pes, foot. 



P. 4-7 cm., rosy flesh colour, rosy orange, or rosy with a tinge of ochre, 

 at first with whitish spots, at length blanched, convex, then plane 

 and depressed, fleshy, viscid, soon dry; margin thin, becoming some- 

 what tuberculosely striate. St. 3-6 cm. x 8-15 mm., white, either en- 

 tirely or here and there sprinkled with rosy meal, equal. Gills whitish, 

 then ochraceous egg-yellow, edge often rosy, free, rounded and furcate 

 behind, equal, or a few dimidiate, rather crowded, sometimes with 

 an adnate tooth, ventricose, connected by veins. Flesh whitish, then 

 becoming yellowish. Spores ochraceous, globose, 8-10/i, echinulate. 

 Cystidia fusiform, 60 x 8/u,. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible 

 Beech, and pine woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



