RUSSULA 477 



sometimes slightly depressed, either viscid, or dry, granularly mealy, 

 often punctate with deeper coloured granules ; margin sometimes some- 

 what sulcate when old. St. 3-5 x -5-1-5 cm., rose, purple, purple- 

 violaceous, often partially or quite white, equal, or obconic, pruinosely 

 mealy, sometimes rugosely stria te. Gills whitish cream, tJien cream 

 colour, adnate, or subadnate, edge sometimes purple, or purplish- 

 violaceous andfloccose, either throughout its length or near the margin 

 of the pileus only, thin, crowded, often forked at the base. Flesh 

 white, sometimes reddish near the cuticle of the pileus. Spores whitish 

 cream in the mass, somewhat hyaline under the microscope, elliptical, 

 7-5-9 x 7-8/z, verrucose, subreticulate. Gystidia rather rare, fusi- 

 form, or subclavate, sometimes with a short and broad appendage 

 at the apex, 90-130 x 13-15/u. Smell slight, or very pleasant. Taste 

 mild. Edible. Coniferous woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. violeipes (Quel.) Maire. Quel. Ass. Fr. (1897), 450, pro forma 



R. citrinae. Violeus, violet; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the citron yellow p. sometimes tinted lilac, 



and the lilac, or white tinged with lilac stem. Coniferous woods. Sept. 



Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1559. R. carnicolor Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 128, as Russula lilacea 

 Quel. var. carnicolor Bres. Caro, flesh; color, colour. 



P. 3-7 cm., flesh colour, disc fuscous livid, then concolorous, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane and depressed, viscid; margin at length slightly 

 tuberculately striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, base sometimes 

 rosy, equal, subpruinose, somewhat rugulose. Gills shining white, 

 rounded behind, adnexed, forked, somewhat distant. Flesh white. 

 Spores white, subglobose, 6-8/x, echinulate. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1560. R. mustelina Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 976, 1. 1018. 



Mustelina, pertaining to a weasel. 



P. 5-10 cm., bright brown, or dingy yellowish, convex, then plane 

 and depressed, fleshy, firm, dry; margin at first incurved, minutely 

 tomentose, then straight. St. 4-6 x 1-5-2-5 cm., white, equal, some- 

 what rugose. Gills white, then cream colour, rounded behind, adnexed, 

 broad in front, connected by veins. Flesh white, ochraceous at the 

 margin. Spores ochraceous cream in the mass, hyaline under the 

 microscope, subglobose, 7-8/u,, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Taste pleasant. 

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



1561. R. caerulea Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 987, t. 1052. 



Caerulea, azure-blue. 



P. 5-8 cm., bright purple, or bluish purple, darker or sometimes 

 brownish at the umbonate disc, convex, then expanded, or somewhat 



