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panded and depressed, polished, pellicle thin, closely adnatc, 

 dingy ochraceous-yellow, becoming pale, margin spreading, 

 almost even ; gills adnexed, rounded and connected behind, 

 3 lines broad, with few or no shorter ones, white then pallid ; 

 stem 2-3 in. long, f in. thick, almost equal, spongy, reticu- 

 lately wrinkled, white then grey, stuffed ; spores subglobos., 

 8 x 9 p. ; cystidia absent. 



Bussula ochroleuca, Fries, Epicr., p. 358; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 332 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 104=9. 



In fir woods, &c. 



Distinguished by the dingy yellow pileus, broad white 

 gills rounded behind, and the grey stem. The centre of the 

 pileus is sometimes rather scurfy, owing to the breaking up 

 of the cuticle. 



B. granulosa differs in the stem not becoming grey ; gills- 

 narrowed behind, and in the numerous, slightly projecting, 

 pointed cystidia. B. claroflava differs in the chrome-yellow 

 pileus, and in the white gills becoming pale lemon-yellow, 

 then somewhat ochraceous, 



Structure and size, also in the acrid taste, agreeing witU 

 B. emetica; differs distinctly in the stem being slight!^ 

 reticulately rugulose, and white then becoming greyisli ; 

 pellicle of pileus adnate, margin persistently even for a long 

 time, gills rounded behind, becoming pallid ; colour of 

 pileus constantly yellow, becoming pale. Inodorous like 

 B. emetica. (Fries.) 



Russula granulosa. Cooke. 



Acrid. Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, firm, 

 white ; convex then expanded, becoming depressed or even 

 infundibuliform, viscid at first, ochraceous, disc darker and 

 becoming broken up into minute granules, owing to the 

 cracking of the cuticle, margin even or faintly striate when 

 old ; gills nearly free, narrowed behind, rather crowded, 

 equal, rarely forked, white; stem 2-3 in. long, nearly or 

 quite equal, minutely granular or mealy throughout, 

 granules snow-white at the apex, brownish below, internally 

 white, spongy ; spores rough, subglobose, white, apiculat^, 

 11-12 fj.-, cystidia pointed, only slightly projecting. 



Bussula granulosa, Cke., Hdbk., p. 332; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 1038. 



