fO FUNGUS-FLORA. 



, Large, usually showy, taste mild and pleasant ; at length 

 truly soft and very fragile. Known from B. Integra by the 

 gills not being powdery with the spores. (Fries.) 



Gills very broad, up to J in., deep ochraceous tan when 

 fully developed; never powdery with the spores, a cha- 

 lacter which at once separates the present species from 

 JJ. Integra, the only one with which it can be confounded. 

 Pileus very variable in colour; deep blood-red, clear rose- 

 colour, dark-purple, greenish, olive, &c. 



Pileus 3 in. broad, fleshy, smooth, viscid when moist,, 

 depressed, margin at first even, more or less furrowed and 

 tiibercled when old; pink, livid, olive, &c. Gills broad, 

 equal, sometimes slightly forked, ventricose, free, connected 

 Ly veins. Spores yellow. Stem 1| in. long, 1 in. thick,, 

 l:)iunt, surface longitudinally wrinkled or grooved, solid, 

 spongy within, smooth, white, sometimes yellow. Taste 

 mild, pleasant, acrid when old. (Berk.) 



Russula Integra, Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 4^5 in. acros-s, flesh rather thin, white ; 

 convex then expanded and depressed; cuticle separable, 

 viscid ; margin thin, at length coarsely striate and tubercn- 

 lose ; colour variable, of various shades of red or green ; 

 gills almost free, veiy broad, up to f in., equal, rather distant ; 

 white then pale , yellow, powdery with the ochraceous 

 spores; stem about 2 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, nearly even, 

 often moire or less swollen in the middle, or ventricose, 

 white, stuffed ; spores pale ochraceous, echinulate, 9-10 ;/a. 

 diameter ; cystidia absent. 



Russula Integra, Fries, Epicr., p. 3G0 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 334; Cke., lllustr., pi. 1034 and 1093. 



In woods. 



Agreeing in many points with B. alutacea, but distin- 

 guished by the much paler yellow gills being powdered 

 with the spores at maturity. 



Taste mild, but often astringent. The most variable of 

 all species especially in the colour of the pileus, which is. 

 typically red, but also verging on bluish, bay, olive, (fee 

 The essential poinds are as follows. Stem spongily-stuffed, 

 usually stout, at first short, conical, then clavate or ventri- 

 cose, about 3 in. long, clear white. Pileus fleshy, campanui- 



