212 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNOOLOGY. 



*** Pileus without any viscid pellicle, dry, commonly hreahing tip 

 into jlocci and granules ; margin straight, not striate. 



11. R. rubra, Fr.; acrid; pilous fleshy, rigid^ convex, then 

 flattened or depressed, dry, polished, at length even ; margin 

 patent, obtuse^ even ; stem hard, solid, stout, white or red ; 

 gills obtusely adnata, rather crowded, dirty-white, often forked 

 and dimidiate. — Kromb. t. 65. 



In woods. Not uncommon. A splendid species. Pileus 

 generally intensely red. Flesh grumous. 



12. R. lepida, i^/*. ; mild; pileus fleshy, compact, convex, 

 then depressed, unpolished, slightly silky or rimoso-squamosc, 

 turning pale ; margin patent, obtuse, even ; stem solid, com- 

 pact, even, white or pink ; gills rounded, rather thick and 

 crowded, many of them forked, white. — Huss. ii. t. 32. 



In woods. Kent, Mr. Husscy. Esculent. 



13. R. virescens, Fr. ; mild ; pileus firm, fleshy, globose, 

 then expanded and umbilieate, innato-flocculose or areolate 

 and warty ; margin straight, obtuse, even ; stem solid, spongy, 

 stout, subrivulose, whitish as well as the free, rather crowded, 

 unequal, and forked gills. (Plate 13, fig. 6.) — Huss. ii. ^.11. 



In Avoods. Not very common. Esculent. Pileus greenish. 

 Easily known by the rough surface of the pileus. 



**** Pileus brittle, clothed with a viscid cuticle; margin connive nt, 

 hut not involute, generally sulcate and tuherculate, 



14. R. emetica, Fr.; acrid; pileus fleshy, flattened out or 

 depressed, polished, shining; margin patent, at length sul- 

 cate ; flesh white under the separa])le red cuticle ; stem solid, 

 spongy, firm, elastic, even, white or pink ; gills free, equal, 

 broad, rather distant, white. — Kromb. t. G6. /. 4-7. 



In woods, but not common. A large and fine species. 



15. R. oehroleuca, Fr. ; acrid; pileus fleshy, flattened out 



