474 RUSSULA 



somewhat tubercular. St. 5-7-5 x 1 cm., white, equal, or attenuated 

 downwards, rigid, minutely wrinkled, pruinose. Gills pallid, then 

 bright sulphur-yellow, adnexed, thin, crowded, equal. Flesh white. 

 Spores ochraceous, elliptical or globose, 7-9 x 7 jit, echinulate, 1- 

 guttulate. Cystidia conical, 60-70 x 10-12^. Smell none, or some- 

 what unpleasant. Taste mild, then acrid. Woods. July Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. pulchralis (Britz.) Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1044, t. 1095, fig. A, as 



Russula pulchralis Britz. Pulchralis, beautiful. 



P. 4^8 cm., ochraceous, centre spotted with red or purple, convex, 



then flattened and depressed, thin, viscid ; margin thin, deeply striate 



and often split. St. 5-6 x 1-2 cm., white, fragile, equal, ventricose, 



or thickened at the base. Gills whitish, then ochraceous yellow, broad, 



distant, rather thick. Flesh white. Spores ochraceous, subglobose, 9 x 



8fji, echinulate. Taste mild. Woods. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1551. R. maculata Quel. Quel. Soc. bot. Fr. (1877), t. 5, fig. 8. 



Maculata, spotted. 



P. 5-9 cm., pale reddish flesh colour, then decoloured yellow or ivory 

 white, spotted with purple or brown, convex, then plane, thick, firm, 

 viscid; margin undulate, generally remaining red. St. 3-4 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 white, rarely tinged with rose, at last spotted with red or bistre, firm, 

 polished, reticulately striate. Gills pale sulphur, then yellow apricot or 

 pink, attenuato-adnate, forked. Flesh white, fragile. Spores citron- 

 yellow, subglobose, 10/t, echinulate. Smell pleasant, like apple, or 

 sweet-briar. Taste mild, then acrid. Edible. Woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1552. R. ochracea (A. & S.) Fr. Richon et Roze, t. 43, figs. 17-20. 



0)^/309, pale yellow. 



P. 6-7 cm., ochraceous, with a tinge of yellow, disc usually becoming 

 darker, convex, then plane or depressed, soft, viscid; margin thin, 

 sulcate. St. 3-4 x 1-1-5 cm., ochraceous, rarely white, equal, or thick- 

 ened at the base, striate. Gills concolorous, slightly adnexed, broad, 

 scarcely crowded. Flesh ochraceous. Spores ochraceous, globose, 

 9-lOjit, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "cylindrical, 50-60 x 7-8 /it, 

 rounded above" Rick. Taste mild, or slightly acrid. Pine, and mixed 

 woods. Aug. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 VIII. Pellicle of the pileus viscid, separable, destitute of cystidia. 



Margin rounded, generally striate. Flesh fragile. Taste mild, rarely 



acrid. Gills equal, or subequal, rounded in front, somewhat free. 



Spores whitish cream to yellow ochre, rarely pure white. 



1553. R. alutacea (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1048, t. 1096. 



Alutacea, like tanned leather. 

 P. 5-18 cm., purple, or blood-red, tinted with olive, green, or bistre, 



