250 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUXGOLOGY. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. Taste mild. 



Vai'. incarnata Quel. ; pileus at leugth depressed, farinose, 

 then areolate, white, tinged with rose, at length tan- 

 coloured, growing pale ; flesh white ; stem stufted, firm, 

 pruinose, white ; gills adnate, broad, furcate, rigid, white, 

 then yellowish. 



Under fir trees. Epping Forest. 



20. R. virescens, Schn'ff ; (p. 212). Epping Forest. 



21. R. Du Portii, PJiill. ; pileus U-2| in., centre 

 rufous or flesh-red, margin bluish, compact, fleshy, firm, 

 convexo-plane, depressed, smooth, dry, margin even, obtuse; 

 flesh turning red when cut ; stem spongy-stuft'ed, minutely 

 striate, glabrous, white ; gills rounded behind, broad, dis- 

 tant, -white. 



In wood. Mattishall, Norfolk. Odour of crab. 



22. R. lepida, Fr. (p. 212); 3 in. Epping Forest. 



23. R. rubra, Fr. (p. 212). Epping Forest. 



Var. sapida, Cke. ; large, fleshy; pileus plane, tlicn de- 

 pressed, dark purple, shining, dry, rather viscid in wet 

 weather, margin entire, even; flesh firm ; stem straight, solid, 

 stufted, white, somewhat cylindrical ; gills fleshy, often 

 furcate, broad, white, entire. 



Among grass. Taste mild. 



2i-. R. Linnasi, Fr. ; pileus 3-1 in., dark purple, blood- 

 red or bright rose, opaque, not becoming pale, fleshy, rigid, 

 piano-depressed, sometimes repand, even, smooth, dry, with- 

 out a separable pellicle, margin spreading, obtuse, without 

 striae ; flesh thick, spongy-compact, white ; stem stout, 

 firm, spongy-soft within, somewhat ventricose, obsoletely 

 fibrilloso-reticulate, blood-red ; gills adnate, somewhat 

 decurrent, rather thick, not crowded, broad, fragile, 

 sparingly connected by veins, white, yellow when dry, with 



