48 rUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Pileus without a distinct pellicle, all one colour, dark purple. 

 Wood-red, &o., opaque, not becoming pale, 3-4 in. across ; 

 p;ills hardly crowded, rarely connected bj' veins, with but 

 few short intermediate ones, distinctly anastomosing behind. 

 (Fries.) 



Russula chamaeleontina. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 1-2 in. across, plane or slightly depressed, 

 pellicle separable, rather viscid ; margin even at first then 

 slightly striate, deep rose-red, purplish-lilac, the disc or 

 every part soon becoming yellowish, or sometimes yellowish 

 from the first; gills slightly adnexed or free, narrow, 

 thin, closely crowded, or somewhat forked, yellow ; stem 

 1-3 in. long, about 2 lines thick, white, indistinctly 

 ■wrinkled, imperfectly hollow; spores globose, ochraceous, 

 7-8 fi diameter. 



Bussula chamaeleontina. Fries, Epicr., p. 363 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 338; Cke., Illustr., pi. ]098. 



In woods, especially pine. 



Inodorous. Very fragile and slender ; usually small, but 

 Fries says that the pileus is sometimes 8 in. across. Known 

 among the small species with ochraceous gills and spores by 

 the deep rose-red or purplish pileus, and absence of smell. 



In mixed woods, especially pine. Sweet, inodorous, very 

 fragile, small. Stem somewhat hollow, up to 3 in. long, but 

 'thin, slightly striate, white. Pileus thin, soon expanded, 

 1-2 in. across, sometimes oblique, with a thin, viscid, se- 

 parable pellicle, at first flesh-coloured, soon losing colour, 

 the disc becoming yellowish, and at length entirely yellow. 

 Gills more or less adnexed, thin, crowded, equal, narrow, 

 •ochraceous-yellow. (Fries.) 



Russula puellaris. Fr. 

 ' Mild. Pileus 1-lJ in. across, flesh almost membranaceous 

 except the disc ; conico-convex then expanded, at first rather 

 gibbous, then slightly depressed, scarcely viscid, colour 

 peculiar, purplish-livid then yellowish, disc always darker 

 and brownish ; tuberculosely striate, often to the middle ; 

 gills adnate but very much narrowed behind, thin, crowded, 

 white then pale yellow, not shining nor powdered with 

 the spores ; stem 1-1 J in. long, 2-4 lines thick, equal, soft, 



