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often becoming fuliginous, somewhat longitudinally striate or 
fibrous ; gills rather broad, rounded behind, not crowded, dark 
grey. Spores white, globose, 4-6 p. Odour of rancid meal. 
Whole plant in drying becoming black. 
On the ground. Whitfield. 
Allied closely to Ag. rancidus. 
Agaricus (Wycena) consimilis, Cooke Illus. Supp. t. 1186. 
Gregarious. Pileus membranaceous, conically campanulate, 
soon with the margin reflexed (2^-3 c.m. broad), striate to the 
middle, at length splitting, smooth, opaque, cinereous with the 
umbo darker. Stem attenuated upwards, often compressed below, 
rather rigid, dry, smooth, paler than the pileus (4 c.m. long, 2 m.m. 
thick above, nearly twice as thick below), fistulose ; gills slightly 
adnate, nearly free, linear, scarcely crowded (2 m.m. broad), 
cinereous. Odour none. 
Amongst grass. Kew Gardens . 
Similar to Ag. leptocephalus. 
Lactarius involutus, Soppitt. Cooke Illus. t. 1194. 
Every part white, with pale ochraceous tinge. Pileus 1-2 in. 
across, firm, equally fleshy up to the margin, smooth, even, convex, 
becoming plane or slightly depressed, margin arched, strongly 
involute, extreme edge minutely silky ; gills subdecurrent, densely 
crowded, very narrow, sometimes forked ; spores white, pip-shaped, 
smooth, 5 X 3 p ; stem solid, equal or slightly incrassated below, 
glabrous, even, about 1 in. long by 3 lines thick ; milk not scanty, 
white, very hot, unchangeable. 
On the ground. Bolton Woods, Yorks. 
Resembling Lactarius vellereus in miniature, but with the pileus 
perfectly glabrous. Almost too near to Lactarius scoticus. 
Russula (Furcatae) virginea, C. Sp M. Cooke Illus. Supp. t. 1197. 
Mild. Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then depressed (5 c.m. 
diam.), smooth, even, viscid when moist, polished when dry, 
margin even, snow white. Stem attenuated upwards, firm, solid 
(5 c.m. long, 2 c.m. thick at the base), finely rugulose ; gills very 
narrow, crowded, subdecurrent, repeatedly forked, connected by 
veins, brittle, as well as the stem, quite white. Spores globose, 
4 p. 
On the ground, under trees, Burnham Beeches. 
Differing from R. lactea in the depressed pileus, rugose stem, 
and rather crowded, very narrow gills, as well as in the very 
minute spores. 
Peridermium coruscans, Fr. S. V. S. 510, Sacc. Syll. 2981. 
Pseudoperidia numerous, always longitudinally disposed, at first 
closed, ellipsoid, then membranaceous, whitish, tubulose, spreading 
at the apex, pale red; aecidiospores for the most part globose, 
subglobose, or subellipsoid, regular, golden yellow, 30-35 x 20- 
24 p. Epispore thin, warted. 
On foliage of Abies pinsapo. Haslemere. 
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