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In Avoods. Common. Generally greenish, but variable in 

 colour. 



7. B. vesca, Fr. ; mild, sweet to the taste ; pileus firm, 

 fleshy, umbilicate, convex, then expanded, funnel-shaped, 

 venoso-rugose ; flesh reddish under the viscid pellicle ; margin 

 even, or at length remotely striate ; stem firm, unequal, rivu- 

 loso-rugose, white, as well as the adnate, rather crowded, 

 unequal, forked gills. — Bolt. t. 1. {Huss. i. /. 89.) 



In woods. Not common. Esculent. Kent, Mrs. Hussey. 



8. R. heterophylla, Fr. ; mild ; pileus firm, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, then depressed, even, polished ; pellicle very thin, eva- 

 nescent ; margin thin, even, or densely striate ; flesh w hite ; 

 stem solid, firm, nearly equal, even, white, as well as the at- 

 tenuated, nearly free, very crowded, forked, and dimidiate gills. 

 (Plate 13, fig. ^.)—Huss. i. t. 84.. 



In woods. Common. Esculent. Very variable in colour. 



9. R. depallens, Fr. ; mild ; pileus firm, fleshy, undulated, 

 irregular, even, opaque; pellicle thin, viscid, adnate, turning 

 pale ; margin even, at length slightly striate ; stem firm, atte- 

 nuated downwards, white, becoming cinereous ; gills adnexed, 

 crowded, brittle^ forked behind, dirty-white. — Kromb. t. 66. 

 /. 12, 13. 



In pastures. Laxtou, Northamptonshire. Stem in my spe- 

 cimens spongy^ and not attenuated. Pileus red, changing to 

 white. 



10. R. sardonia, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, 

 then depressed, smooth ; pellicle thin, adnate, viscid, changing 

 colour ; margin even ; stem solid, spongy, short, white or red- 

 dish ; gills adnate, very crowded, somewhat forked, yellow. — 

 Kromb. t. 68./. 1-4. 



Near paths in fir-woods, as at Coed Cocli. A small species.- 

 Pileus dull yellow. 



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