64 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Cooke has. figured a form (pi. 1077) having the pilous 

 very pale rosy lilac or almost white, disc yellowish. 



Russula elephantina. Fr. 



Mild. Pileus 3-4 in. across ; equally fleshy but not very 

 thick ; convex and umbilicate, glabrous, brownish- tan, 

 margin paler, incurved, undulating, even; gills obtusely 

 adnate, arcuate, rather crowded, thin, whitish, soon marked 

 with yellowish spots ; stem 2-3 in. long, 1 in. thick, hard, 

 white, flesh firm, white. 



Bussula elephantina, Fries, Epicr., p. 360 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 320. 



In woods. 



The absence of any tendency to turn black or red, 

 brownish-tan pileus, and obtusely adnate, thin, crowded 

 gills, separate this species from its allies. It is doubtful as 

 to whether the present species occurs in Britain. The only 

 evidence is the quotation of Bolton's fig. 28 — with a note of 

 interrogation — by Fries. 



Habit that of iJ. foetens but without smell, and pileus firm 

 and everywhere fleshy. Stem solid, stout, very hard, 2-3 in. 

 long, 1 in. thick, even, glabrous, white both outside and 

 inside. Pileus fleshy, convex and umbilicate at first, 3 in. 

 broad; margin incurved, glabrous, undulate, thin, and ex- 

 ceeding the gills, but never striate, pellicle not separable ; 

 brownish-tan, paler towards the margin, not changing 

 colour, flesh equal, compact, thin in proportion' to the size 

 of the fungus ; gills obtusely or somewhat sinuately adnate, 

 arcuate, rather crowded, thin, divided behind, unequal in 

 front, white, reddish-yellow when bruised. Smell none. 

 (Fries.) 



Russula mustelina. Fr. 

 Mild. Pileus 2-3 in. across, equally fleshy, firm, convex 

 then expanded, centre depressed, at length plane and often 

 wavy, glabrous, even, margin inflexed; pellicle viscid in 

 rainy weather, adnate, brownish or dingy yellowish, opaque ; 

 flesh white, unchangeable ; gills slightly rounded behind and 

 adnexed, broadest in front, many shorter ones intermixed, 

 crowded, thin, connected by veins, white; stem fleshy, solid, 

 about 2 in. longj equal, even, glabrous, white ; spores 7-8 {j, 

 diameter. 



