BUSSULA. 45 



Bussnla nitida. Fr. 



Smell impleasaiit. Pilens aTsont 2 in. across, flesh white, 

 rattier thin, rigid, convex then plane or slightly depressed, 

 pellicle viscid in moist ^veather, colour various, but usually 

 purplish hay, disc darker, shining ; margin striate, some- 

 what tuherculose ; gUls adnexed, receding, crowded, pallid, 

 then sulphur-coloured, not powdered; stein 2-3 io. long, 

 h in. thick, spongily stuffed, almost equal or attenuated 

 helow, even, white then paUid ; spores minutely echinulate, 

 8-10 X tj-8 [t ; taste mild at first, slowly becoming acrid. 



Busgula nitida. Fries, Epicr., p. 361 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 336 ; 

 Cke., niustr., pL 1063a. 



In woods. 



IHstingnished from every other species hy the bright 

 lemon-yellow, shining gills, that never become dusted with 

 ochraceous powder. (Fries.) 



S. nauseosa agrees with the present species in the dis- 

 agreeable smell, but differs in the distant, dingy ochraceous, 

 powdered spores. 



Var. ctiprea, Cke., Ulustr., pL 109ob. 

 Pileus copper-colour with a tinge of ptirple, otherwise as 

 in the typical form. 

 In woods. 



Russxila aurata. Fr. 



Mil d. PUetis 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, firm, white, 

 citron-yellow below the cuticle, fragile ; hemispherical then 

 plane, pellicle thin, adnate, viscid in damp weather, colour 

 variable, citron-yellow, orange, or red, disc darker, but not 

 depressed; margin even but slightly striate or wrinkled 

 when old ; giUs rotmded behind and almost free, connected 

 by veins, broad, equal, shining, never powdery, yellowish- 

 white, margin bright citron-yellow ; stem 2-^ in. long, solid, 

 firm, but spongy within, cylindrical, indistinctly striate, 

 white or citron-yellow; spores subglobose, echinulate, 9—10 

 or 8 X 10 fi; taste mUd at first, then becoming slightly 

 acrid. 



Busgula aurata, Fr., Epicr., p. 360 ; Cke., Ulustr., pL lOS 3 ; 

 Gke^ Hdbk., p. 335. 



Agaricus auratus. Withering, Arr. iv. 



In woods, under pines, &c. 



