288 AGARIC ACE^: Russula 



St. equal, even, white. G. thin, attenuate behind and reaching 

 the stem, crowded, white. 



Edible. Taste mild, sweet, nutty, odour of hog's lard, but like lobster or 

 crab when cooked. Woods, etc. ; common. July-Oct. 4 x 2^ x I in. 

 Var. galochroa Fr. P. white to whitish-apple-green. 



1340. R. eonsobrina Fr. (related to 1341 ; consobrinus, a cousin) a b. 

 P. campanulate to depressed, viscid, dark cinereous to fuscous- 

 olivaceous, tan-umber, tan-sepia, sooty-sepia or yellowish- 

 umber ; mid. darker ; marg. even. St. even, smooth, shining- 

 white, then cinereous. G. adnate, crowded, shining-white. 

 Flesh white, ashy under pellicle. 



Taste of flesh acrid, gills intensely acrid ; not fetid as in 1341. Mixed 

 woods, pine, beech. July-Oct. 3f X if X | in. Var. sororia Fr., 

 margin striate. Var. intermedia Cooke. P. becoming striate. St. 

 usually attenuate downwards. G. dull white. 



1341. R. fcetens Fr. (from the fetid odour) a b c. 



P. bullate to expanded, sometimes depressed, viscid in wet 

 weather, sienna- or brown-yellow; marg. striato-ribbed, at 

 length tuberculate. St. becoming hollow, whitish or yellowish. 

 G. adnexed, crowded, exuding watery drops, whitish. 



Said to be poisonous. Taste acrid, rarely mild ; odour fetid-burnt, 

 empyreumatic, very strong in mature examples in wet weather, sometimes 

 slight. Woods ; very common. July-Oct. 4^ X & X i& in. 1390 

 grows on this species. 



1342. R. subfoetens W. G. Sm. (from the somewhat fetid odour) a b. 

 P. convex to plane and subdepressed, somewhat viscid, sienna- 

 yellowish or buff, paler at the striato-tuberculate marg. 

 St. equal, even, whitish or faintly buff. G. thick, branched, 

 distant, yellowish-white. 



Taste slightly acrid and bitter ; odour somewhat disagreeable. Grassy 

 places. Aug.-Sept. 3^ X 2 X f in. Whole plant tough, elastic. 



1343. R. fellea Fr. (from the bitter-acrid taste \felleus, full of gall) a be. 

 P. hemispherical to convex, smooth, lustrous, straw-colour to 



ochre or buff; mid. brownish. St. equal, even, white to straw 

 or pale yellowish, or shaded pale buff. G. adnate, more or 

 less crowded, thin, exuding drops in wet weather, pale yellowish 

 or faint buff. 



Poisonous. Taste intensely bitter and acrid ; odour none. Woods, beech, 

 open places ; common. Aug.-Nov. 4^ X 2^ x f in. 



1344. R. elegans Bres. (elegans, pretty) a b. 



P. hemispherical to depressed, glutinous and densely granulate, 

 bright rosy flesh-colour, soon ochreous at marg. or pale 

 crimson ; mid. purple-crimson or rose-buff, spotted crimson or 

 purplish-crimson ; marg. tuberculose. St. equal, becoming 

 hollow, subrugulose, white, ochre-buff below. G. adnexed or 

 rounded-adnate, crowded, rarely furcate, whitish, ochre above, 

 becoming orange-ochre with age. Flesh very firm, white, 

 ochre-buff with age. 



Woods, moist. Sept. 3! X 2 x f in. 



