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and broken up into angular squamules ; gills free, white ; stem 

 about 2 in. long, white. 



Readily distinguished by the cuticle of the cap becoming broken 

 up into areolate squamules. 



In woods. 



A', f areata. — Cap 3-4 in. across, smooth, but often frosted with a 

 slight silkiness, livid green or greenish umber, pelhcle separable ; 

 gills broad, narrowed at each end, forked, white ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 white. 



In woods and among grass under trees. 



R. cBruginea. — Cap 3-4 in. across, verdigris-green, edge striate ; 

 gills broadest in front, white ; stem about 2 in. long, white. 



In wood'-. 



■ffff Cap red, hron'nish or purple (sometimes with more or less 

 green intermixed). 



R. lepida. — Cap 3-4 in. across, blood-red with a rosy tinge, be- 

 coming pale or whitish, especially the disc, cracked into squamules ; 

 gills white ; stem about 2 in. long, white. 



Cap almost equally fleshy, blood-red with a rosy tinge, disc 

 becoming whitish. R. vireseens and R. cutefracta agree with the 

 present in having the cuticle broken up or cracked into squamules ; 

 the former differs in the green colour ; the latter in never becoming 

 pale at the disc. 



In woods. 



R. xerampelina. — Cap 3-4 in. across, dry, usually rosy purple, 

 disc becoming pale yellow, sometimes a tinge of olive is present, 

 the cuticle cracked into minute granules when old ; gills white, 

 then yellowish tan ; stem 2-3 in. long, white or partly tinged red. 



Differs from R. ochroleuca and R. granulosa in mild taste and 

 darker ochraceous gills. 



In woods. 



R. cutefracta. — Cap 3-5 in. across, purple, dull red, etc., flesh 

 tinged red under the cuticle, which cracks into areola, especially 

 near the edge ; gills white ; stem about 3 in. long, white, tinged 

 purple. 



In woods. 



R. vesca. — Cap about 3 in.- across, viscid, with fine, radiating, 

 slightly raised wrinkles, flesh-red, disc darker ; gills crowded, 

 whitish ; stem up to 2 in. long, white, tinged rust-colour when cut. 



Distinguished by the finely wrinkled cap ; the flesh, more 

 especially of the stem, turning rusty when cut, and by the decided 

 smell, resembling crab or lobster, wlien the flesh is bruised. 



In woods. 



R. duporiii (PI. X, fig. 6). — Cap convexo-plane, then depressed, 

 smooth, dry, edge even, the centre rufous or flesh-red, edge bluish. 



