AGAEICINI. 2o5 



at length decoloured, except at disc, cuticle separable ; 

 flesh purple, stem cylindrical, firm, equal, or a little thickened 

 at base, turning purple, mealy ; gills pallid yellow, furcate 

 at base, broad. 

 Under trees. 



5. Fragiles. — Pileus more or less fleshy, rigid-fragUe, covered vnili 

 a continuous pellicle, in ivet weather viscid and somewhat 

 separable, margin membranaceous, at first convergent, not 

 involute, in fidl groivn plants sulcate and tubercular ; flesh 

 floccose, lax, friable; stem spongy, at length soft and hollow ; 

 gills almost all equal, simp>le, broader in front, free. 



* GUIs and spores white. 



41. R. emetica, (p. 212) ; 3-4 in ; flesh reddish under 

 the separable pellicle. Epping Forest. 



Var. clusii, Fr. ; pileus convex, then expanded, blood- 

 red ; flesh white, turning yellowish ; gills obsoletely ad- 

 nexed, at length adnate, pallid, yellowish. 



In woods. 



Var. fallax, Schceff.; thinner, more fragile; pileus dirty 

 reddish, or variedly coloured, opaque, discoid ; gills ad- 

 nexed, distant, whitish, or watery pallid. 



In moist places. Epping Forest. 



42. R. atropurpureus, Kromb. ; large ; pileus fleshy, 

 plane, then depressed, dark purple, shining, dry, rather viscid 

 in wet weather, margin entire, even ; flesh white ; stem 

 straight, solid, stufled, white, somewhat cylindrical ; gills 

 fleshy, often furcate, broad, white, entire. 



Among grass. Epping Forest. Hereford. Taste mild. 

 Fries considers this plant to be a form of R. emetica, 

 but Dr. Cooke places it in Section II. — Rigidce. 



43. R. flngibilis, Britz.; pileus 2 iu., yellow, convpx. 



