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centre spotted with red or purple, margin thin, deeply 

 striate, often split ; stem equal, ventricose or thickened at 

 base, fragile, white; gills broad, distant, rather thick, 

 whitish, then ochraceous-yellow. 

 In woods. 



*** Gills and sjyores ochraceou^. 



57. R. alutacea, Fr. (p. 214) ; 2-4 in. Epping Forest 



58. R. armeniaca, Cke. ; very fragile, pileus 1—1^ in., 

 convex, then depressed, smooth, even, peach colour, paler 

 at edge, margin thin, even; stem attenuated upwards, 

 smooth, white, hollow ; gills adnate, rounded behind, rather 

 broad, somewhat distant, bright ochre, almost egg-yellow. 



Among grass, under trees. Epping Forest. 



59. R. puellaris, Fi\ ; pileus 1—1^ in., membranaceous 

 except at disc, conically convex and tuberculose, livid- 

 purplish, becoming yellowish, disc brown, always darker ; 

 stem soon hollow, white, becoming yellowish ; gills attenu- 

 ated behind, adnate, thin, crowded, naked, white, then 

 pallid yellow. 



On waysides in woods. 



Var. intensior, Cke. ; pileus darker, nearly same size 

 deep purple, nearly black at disc ; stem and gills as in 

 type. 



In same places. 



Var. rosipes, -Seer. ; pileus 2-3 in., fleshy, margin thin, 

 convex, then flattened and depressed, soon dry, rosy flesh 

 colour, rosy orange, or rosy with a tinge of ochre, at first 

 spotted with whitish, at length blanched, margin shortly 

 tuberculate, striate ; flesh whitish, then rather yellowish ; 

 gills rather crowded, equal, some dimidiate or furcate, 

 furcate behind and rounded, free, rather distant, sometimes 



