RUSSTJLA 473 



***Flesh not becoming black, taste distinctly acrid. 



1547. R. veternosa Fr. Bres. Fung, manger, t. 75. 



Veternosa, languid. 



P. 5-8 cm., rose, or flesh colour, soon becoming pale, commonly 

 whitish or yellowish at the disc, convex, then plane and depressed in 

 the middle, slightly fleshy, viscid, pellicle adnate. St. 5-8 cm. x 

 12 mm., white, often tinged with rose towards the base, fragile, equal. 

 Gills white, then bright yellow, adnate, narrowed behind, broader in 

 front. Flesh white, soft. Spores ochraceous, subglobose, 7-8 x 6-7 p, 

 echinulate. Cystidia "lanceolate, 45-70 x 9-15/n, shorter on the 

 edge of the gill" Rick. Taste acrid. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1548. R. nauseosa (Pers.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 129. 



Nauseosa, nauseous. 



P. 3-5 cm., variable in colour, typically purplish at the disc, then 

 livid, but becoming pale and often whitish, piano-gibbous, then de- 

 pressed, viscid, laxly fleshy; margin submembranaceous, tuberculoso- 

 sulcate. St. 2-3 cm. x 8 mm., white, becoming grey with age, fragile, 

 slightly striate. Gills light yellow, then dingy ochraceous, adnexed, 

 ventricose, somewhat distant. Flesh white. Spores yellow, subglobose, 

 7-10)Lt, verrucosely echinulate. Cystidia "fusiform, 50-55 x 10/z" 

 Bres. Smell often unpleasant, taste mild, then acrid. Coniferous 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



var.flavida Cke. = Russula lutea (Huds.) Fr. 



1549. R. puellaris Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 64. Puellaris, girlish. 

 P. 2-5-6 cm., livid purplish, becoming yellowish, disc brown, conic- 

 ally convex, then flattened or depressed, membranaceous except 

 at the disc, viscid, margin tuberculosely-striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 7- 

 10 mm., white, becoming yellowish, and stained brownish when touched, 

 attenuated upwards, rugulose. Gills white, then pallid yellow, adnate, 

 attenuated behind, thin, crowded. Flesh white, ochraceous at the base 

 of the stem. Spores ochraceous, subglobose, 8-10 x 7-8 /z, echinulate, 

 1-guttulate. Cystidia abundant, conical, 50-65 x 9-11/n. Taste mild, 

 then slightly acrid. Woods, and damp places. Aug. Oct. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



var. intensior Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1047, t. 1066. Intensior, deeper. 

 Differs from the type in the darker, deep purple p., nearly black at 

 the disc. 



1550. R. nitida (Pers.) Fr. (= Russula nitida Fr. var. cuprea Cke.) 

 Krombh. t. 66, figs. 1-3. Nitida, shining. 



P. 3-6 cm., bay-brown-purplish, disc darker, convex, then plane or 

 slightly depressed, thin, viscid, shining when dry; margin striate, 



