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my mess of Russulae almost any day in their season. 

 This species is shown in its various stages of develop- 

 ment and also in section in Plate 1 1. Its substance is 

 firm and solid creamy white. The pileus, at first al- 

 most hemispherical, as it pushes its 

 Specific way through the earth, at length be- 

 cliaracters comes convex, with a slight hollow at 

 the centre, and later ascends in a gentle 

 slope from centre to rim. Its color is sage green, or 

 mouldy green, usually quite unbroken in tint at cen- 

 tre, but more or less disconnected into spots as it ap- 





RUSSULA VIRESCENS 

 (Showing mottled cap of occasioDal specimen, and variations in gills, i even ; s/ofAed; 3 dimidiate.) 



proaches the circumference by the gradual expansion 

 of the cap, the creamy undertint appearing like net- 

 work between the separated patches of color. The 

 substance of the cap becomes gradually thinned tow- 

 ards the circumference, where the mere cuticle con- 

 nects the gills, the position of these gills being ob- 

 servable from above in a faint fluting of the edge, a 

 peculiarity of all the Russulae. The cuticle peels 



