476 RTJSSULA 



cream, or yellow wax colour, sinuate, adnate by a tooth, forked, con- 

 nected by veins. Flesh white-cream, firm. Spores white-cream colour 

 in the mass, elliptical, 9/x,. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Coni- 

 ferous woods, and under conifers. Sept. Rare. 



1556. R. vesca Fr. (= Russula rosea (Schaeff.) Quel.) Sverig. atl. 

 Svamp. t. 63. Vescor, I feed. 



P. 2-11 cm., red flesh colour, disc darker, fleshy, firm, convex, then 

 piano-depressed, slightly wrinkled with veins, viscid ; margin at length 

 spreading. St. 2-8 x 1-3 cm., shining white, often foxed with age, 

 equal, often attenuated downwards, rugosely striate. Gills whitish, 

 adnate, rather narrow, thin, crowded, connected by veins. Flesh white, 

 foxing when cut or bruised. Spores white, globose, 8 9//,, echinulate. 

 Cystidia flask-shaped, apex elongate, obtuse, 2'5-3/z in diam., 

 35-60 x 8-10/i. Smell none, or unpleasant like crab. Taste mild. 

 Edible. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Duportii (Phill.) Massee. Cke. lUus. no. 1003, t. 1042, fig. A, as 

 Russula Duportii Phill. 



Rev. Canon J. M. Du Port, an enthusiastic mycologist. 

 P. 4-6-5 cm., disc rufous or flesh red, obtuse margin bluish, compact, 

 fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, then depressed, dry. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 

 10-16 mm., white, minutely striate. Gills white, rounded behind, 

 broad, distant. Flesh turning reddish brown when cut. Spores white, 

 globose, 9ju,, echinulate. Smell of crab. Woods. Sept. 



1557. R. Barlae Quel. 1 Quel. As. Fr. (1883), t. 6, fig. 12. 



J. B. Barla, the eminent mycologist of Nice. 

 P. 6-9 cm., yellow apricot, or bright nankeen yellow, tinged with orange 

 passing into rosy flesh colour, convex, then plane, or infundibuliform, 

 compact, slightly viscid, cuticle separable, often cracked. St. 4-5 x 

 1-1-5 cm., cream colour, then streaked with bistre, firm, wrinkled striate, 

 silky pruinose. Gills cream colour, then saffron yellow with a tinge of 

 rosy flesh colour, sinuate, free. Flesh white. Spores cream colour, 

 globose, 9/n, verrucose. Smell pleasant, like melilot ("mousse de 

 Corse" Barla). Mountainous woods. Summer. 



1558. R. punctata (Gill.) Maire. (= Russula amoena Quel. sec. Maire; 

 Russula punctata Gill. var. leucopus Cke.) Gillot et Lucand, 

 Catal. Champ. Autan, t. 2, fig. 3, as Russula amoena Quel. 



Punctata, dotted. 



P. 3-8 cm., rose, purple, purple-violaceous, lilac, often more or less 

 mixed with olive green or yellowish green, sometimes entirely greenish 

 olive, yellowish green, or yellow citron colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, 



1 This is recorded as British by M. C. Cooke in Handbook?of British Fungi, 

 Ed. n, p. 335, but his diagnosis is referred by Rene Maire in Bull. Soc. Myc. 

 Fr. xxvn (1910), 172 to Russula xerampelina Fr. 



