40 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Large, usually showy, taste mild and pleasant ; at length 

 truly soft and very fragile. Known from E. integra by the 

 gills not being powdery with the spores. (Fries.) 



Gills very broad, up to f in., deep ochraceous tan when 

 fully developed ; never powdery with the spores, a cha- 

 racter which at once separates the present species from 

 JR. integra, the only one with which it can be confounded. 

 Pileus very variable in colour ; deep blood-red, clear rose- 

 colour, dark-purple, greenish, olive, &c. 



Pileus 3 in. broad, fleshy, smooth, viscid when moist, 

 depressed, margin at first even, more or less furrowed and* 

 tubercled when old; pink, livid, olive, &c. Gills broad, 

 equal, sometimes slightly forked, ventricose, free, connected 

 by veins. Spores yellow. Stem IT, in. long, 1 in. thick, 

 blunt, surface longitudinally wrinkled or grooved, solid,, 

 spongy within, smooth, white, sometimes yellow. Taste 

 mild, pleasant, acrid when old. (Berk.) 



Eussula integra. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 4-5 in. acroj-s, flesh rather thin, white ; 

 convex then expanded and depressed; cuticle separable, 

 viscid ; margin thin, at length coarsely striate and tubercu- 

 lose ; colour variable, of .various shades of red or green ; 

 gills almost free, very broad, up to f in., equal, rather distant ; 

 white then pale yellow, powdery with the ochraceous 

 spores; stem about 2 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, nearly even, 

 often more or less swollen in the middle, or ventricose, 

 white, stuffed; spores pale ochraceous, echinulate, 9-10 ,/><. 

 diameter ; cystidia absent. 



Eussula integra, Fries, Epicr., p. 360; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 334; Cke., lllustr., pi. 1034 and 1093. 



In woods. 



Agreeing in many points with E. alutacea, but distin- 

 guished by the much paler yellow gills being powdered 

 with the spores at maturity. 



Taste^mild, but often astringent. The most variable of 

 all species especially in the colour of the pileus, which is- 

 typically red, but also verging on bluish, bay, olive, &c. 

 1 he essential points are as follows. Stem spongily-stuffed, 

 usually stout, at first short, conical, then clavate or ventri- 

 cose, about 3 in. long, clear white. Pileus fleshy, campanu- 



