252 OUTLINES OF liHlTISH FUXGOLOGY. 



beneath cuticle tinged with purple ; stem firm, solid, nearly 

 equal or a little attenuated above, smooth, slightly tinged 

 with purple ; gills somewhat crowded, narrowed behind, 

 furcate, adnexed or nearly free, white. 



On the ground in woods. Epping Forest, etc. Taste 

 mild. 



1. HeteropiiylL/E. — Pileus fleshij, firm, vith a thin margin 

 ivhich is at first infiexed, then expanded and striate, covered 

 zoith a thin adnate 2yellicle ; the gills consist of many shorter 

 ones mixed imth larger ones, others forked ; stem solid, stout, 

 spongy within. 



29. R. vesca, Fr. (p. 211). Epping Forest. 



30. E,. lilacea, Quel. ; jiilcus 2j— 3i in., convex, then 

 depressed, rather fleshy, viscid, violet or purple, margin 

 growing pale, striate ; flesh violet under the cuticle ; then 

 spongy, corticate, fragile, pruinose above, rosy at base ; 

 gills distant, ventricose, white, connected by veins. 



In moist woods. 



31. R. azurea, Bres. ; pileus 2-2 .\ in., fleshy, convex then 

 plane or depressed, soon dry and even, minutely granulose, 

 margin scarcely striate, bright blue, margin sometimes lilac 

 growing pale, cuticle separable ; stem white, ventricose, or 

 clavate at base, smooth, rugulose, firm, spongy, a little hol- 

 low when old ; flesh white ; gills crowded, equal, attenuated 

 behind, adnexed, bifid, white, unchangeable. 



In fir woods. 



32. R. cyanoxantha, Schceff. ; pileus 2-3 in., lilac pur- 

 plish, then olivaceous-green, disc becoming pale, often yel- 

 lowish, margin becoming azure blue, or livid purple, compact, 

 convex, plane, depressed or infundibnliform, sometimes 

 wrinkled or streaked, viscous ; margin deflexed then expanded, 



