C4 FUNG US-FLOE A. 



Cooke has figured a form (pi. 1077) having the pilous 

 very pale rosy lilac or almost white, disc yellowish. 



Russula elephantina. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 3-4 in. across ; equally fleshy but not very 

 thick ; convex and unibilicate, glabrous, brownish-tan, 

 margin paler, incurved, undulating, even; gills obtusely 

 adnate, arcuate, rather crowded, thin, whitish, soon marked 

 with yellowish spots; stem 23 in. long, 1 in. thick, hard, 

 white, flesh firm, white. 



Eussula elephantina, Fries, Epicr., p. 350; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 320. 



In woods. 



The absence of any tendency to turn black or red, 

 brownish-tan pileus, and obtusely adnate, thin, crowded 

 gills, separate this species from its allies. It is doubtful as 

 to whether the present species occurs in Britain. The only 

 evidence is the quotation of Bolton's fig. 28 with a note of 

 interrogation by Fries. 



Habit that of R. foetens but without smell, and pileus firm 

 and everywhere fleshy. Stem solid, stout, very hard, 23 in. 

 long, 1 in. thick, even, glabrous, white both outside and 

 inside. Pileus fleshy, convex and unibilicate at first, 3 in. 

 broad; margin incurved, glabrous, undulate, thin, and ex- 

 ceeding the gills, but never striate, pellicle not separable ; 

 brownish-tan, paler towards the margin, not changing 

 colour, flesh equal, compact, thin in proportion to the size 

 of the fungus ; gills obtusely or somewhat sinuately adnute, 

 arcuate, rather crowded, thin, divided behind, unequal in 

 front, white, reddish-yellow when bruised. Smell none. 

 (Fries.) 



Russula mustelina. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 2-3 in. across, equally fleshy, firm, convex 

 then expanded, centre depressed, at length plane and often 

 wavy, glabrous, even, margin inflexed; pellicle viscid in 

 rainy weather, adnate, brownish or dingy yellowish, opaque ; 

 flesh white, unchangeable ; gills slightly rounded behind and 

 adnexed, broadest in front, many shorter ones intermixed, 

 crowded^ thin, connected by veins, white; stem fleshy, solid,, 

 about 2 in. long, equal, even, glabrous, white ; spores 7-8 /x, 

 diameter. 



