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fragile, mgulose under a lens, wliite or yellowisli ; stuffed , 

 soon hollow; taste mild; spores subglobose, pale yellow, 

 echinulate, 10 x 8-9 fi.. 



Bussula puellaris, Fries, Bpicr., p. 361 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 337 ;. 

 Cke., lUustr., pi. 1065. 



In woods. 



Among the most frequent and readily recognised of species, 

 occurring in troops. Always small, thin, taste mild. Allied 

 to B. nitida, but more slender, colour paler, and not shining. 

 (Fries.) 



Distinguished from B. nitida and B. nauseosa by the absence 

 of smell- 



Var. intensior, Cke., Hdbk., p. 337; Cke. lUustr., pi. 

 1066. 



Nearly the same size as the typical form; pileus deep 

 purple, nearly black at the disc. 



In woods, &c. 



The stem has a tendency to become thickened at the base, 

 and turns yellowish when touched. Spores 10 x 8 /i. 

 (Cooke.) 



Var. roseipes, Secretan, Myc. Suis., no. 483 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 337 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 1081. 



Pileus 1-1 J in. across, margin thin shortly tuberculately 

 striate, convex then flattened and depressed, "viscid, soon drj', 

 rosy flesh-colour, rosy-orange, or rosy with a tinge of ocLre, 

 at first spotted with white, then becoming bleached ; gills 

 free, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, crowded, equal, 

 forked behind, connected by veins ; whitish then ochraceous 

 egg- yellow ; stem about 2 in. long, 4 lines thick at the base, 

 slightly thinner upwards, white, sprinkled here and there 

 with rosy meal, flesh white, lacunose ; taste mild ; spores 

 globose, minutelj' echinulate, pale ochraceous, 8-10 /x. diam. 



In woods. 



f PileuB white or cream-colour. 



Russula virginea. Cke. & Mass. 

 Mild. Every part persistently pure white. Pileus about 

 2 in. across, flesh thick, firm ; convex then more or less de- 

 pressed, smooth, even, viscid when moist, polished when dry, 

 margin even, arched ; gills slightly decurrent, crowded, not 



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