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rattier dark olive-green, disc often darker, and frequently 

 with a tinge of purple, covered everywhere at first with a 

 dense, whitish hlocm, margin very slightly striate; cuticle 

 separable; flesh ahout 2 lines thick, becoming thinner at 

 the extreme margin, firm, white ; gills very narrow behind, 

 and very slightly adnexed, broader in front, 2 lines broad, 

 crowded, brittle, often forked behiad, with a few shorter 

 ones that reach nearly to the base, connected by veins, pale 

 cream colour from the first, not becoming darker; basidia 

 clavate, sterigmata elongate, spores subglobose, minutely 

 warted, colourless, about 9 X 8 /a diameter ; cystidia absent ; 

 stem 1^ in. long, ^ in. thick, nearly equal or slightly swollen 

 at the base, very slightly longitudinally rugulose, solid but 

 spongy inside, hence not firm when compressed. 



Bussula azurea, Bresadola, Fungi Trident., t. 24; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 328; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1088. 



Among grass under trees. 



Allied to B. cyanoxantha, but smaller, and at once dis- 

 tinguished by the dense mealy layer, resembling bloom, on 

 the pileus, the smooth spores, and absence of cystidia. 



Russula virescens. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh rather thick, white ; 

 globose then expanded, and at length depressed, often un- 

 equal, always dry, not furnished with a distinct pellicle,, the 

 flocoulose cuticle becoming broken up into areolate warts ; 

 margin straight, obtuse, even, dingy opaque green, gills free, 

 somewhat crowded, narrowest in front, equal or sometimes 

 forked, a few short ones intermixed, white ; stem solid, 

 spongy within, firm, white ; spores 8x10 ,u,. 



Bussula virescens Fries, Epicr., p. 355 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 324; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1039. 



In woods. 

 "Eeadily distinguished from every species by the green 

 pileus without a pellicle, at first innately flocculose then 

 rivulose, and broken up into areolate squamules. (Fries.) 



Russula furcata. Fr. 



Mild at first but soon bitter. Pileus 3-4 in. across, fleshy, 

 compact, gibbous then piano-depressed, or infundibuliform, 

 even, glabrous, but often frosted with a slight silkiness, 



