76 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Var. fallax; Bussula emetica, -vax.fallax; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 331 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1059. 



Size of the typical form, or slightly larger ; acrid, fragile, 

 dingy pale reddish or with a pale purple tinge, disc Tisually 

 very dark ; opaque, discoid ; gills adnexed, distant, pallid ; 

 spores 8 /* diameter. 



la woods. 



Russula Queletii. Fr. 



Acrid. Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thickish at the disc, 

 margin thin, white, purplish under the cuticle; campanu- 

 late or convex then plane, even, viscid, dark violet or dusky, 

 margin slightly striate, purplish lilac; gills almost free, 

 narrowed behind, unequal, forked, 1^ line broad, white, 

 exuding drops of water ; stem 1^-2 in. long, 4-3 lines thick, 

 purplish- violet, paler than the pileus, mealy, spongy within ; 

 spores, 8 /t. 



Bussula Queletii, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 448 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 330; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1028. 



In fir woods, &c. 



Distinguished by the purple pileus and stem and the 

 white gills. B. drimeia somewhat resembles the present 

 species in general appearance, but differs in the yellow gills. 



Var. purpurea; Bussula purpurea, Gillet, Tab. Anal., p. 47; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 323 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1022. 



Differs from the typical form in the whitish stem tinged 

 with rose-colour at the middle pai t, and the yellowish gills. 



MYCENA. Fries. 



Pileus regular, thin, usually striate, more or less cam- 

 panulate, rarely umbilioate or depressed, oonico-oyliudrical at 

 first, with the margin straight and closely embracing the 

 slender, hollow, central stem ; gills adnate or adnexed, never 

 truly decurrent, but often more or less sinuate behind, and 

 with a more or less evident decurrent tooth (= uncinate), 

 white, greyish, or tinged with pale reddish-pink (= flesh- 

 colour) ; spores white. 



Mycena, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 140; Cke., Hdbk., p. 75 

 (as a subgenus of Agaricus). 



