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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
Lactarius intermedius, Krombh. t. 58, fig. 11-13. 
Pileus fleshy, broad, infundibuliform, viscid, smooth, ocbraceous 
yellow, margin involute, tomentose, then smooth ; gills broad, 
lurid, whitish, somewhat decurrent, affixed, entire; stem short, 
thick, solid, or sometimes hollow, yellowish, covered with spot-like 
depressions ; milk white then yellowish, rather acrid. B. fy Br. 
Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1887. 
Jn woods. Dereham (Rev. J. M. du Port). 
Referred by Fries to Lactarius cilicioides. 
Russula (Furcatae) drimeia, Cooke. 
Acrid, peppery. Pileus compact, firm, convex, then depressed, 
scarcely viscid when moist, opaque when dry, bright purple ; 
margin sub-incurved, even ; stem solid, firm, cylindrical, equal, 
tinged with purple ; gills adnexed, scarcely crowded, narrow and 
furcate at the base, at first pale sulphur-yellow, then deeper 
yellow, never white ; spores pale ochre. 
On the ground, amongst larch. Bjack Park, Sept., 1881. 
Pileus 2-4 inches broad. Stem 2-3 inches long, inch thick. 
So intensely peppery that after tasting a small fragment, the 
tongue tingled for more than half an hour. Gathered in company 
with H. T. Wharton, Esq. The colour and habit similar to B. 
Queletii , but distinguished by the yellow gills, ochraceous spores, 
and intensely peppery taste. 
Russula (Rigidae) cutefracta, Cooke. 
Mild. Pileus fleshy, firm, dry, opaque, variable in colour, 
green, purple, dull red, &c., convex, then a little depressed in the 
centre, cuticle cracking from the margin inwards into minute 
firmly adnate areolae, otherwise even ; flesh beneath the cuticle 
tinged with purple ; stem firm, solid, nearly equal, or a little 
attenuated above, smooth, slightly tinged with purple ; gills some- 
what crowded, narrowed behind, furcate, adnexed, or nearly free, 
white. 
On the ground in woods. Epping, Kew Gardens, Dinedor, and 
other places around Hereford. 
Pileus 3-4 inches or more. Stem 3 inches long, often 1 inch 
thick. Allied to B. virescens , which it resembles in the cracking 
of the cuticle, but differs in the purple tint beneath, even in green 
specimens, and in the tinted stem, as well as in the colour of the 
pileus, which is of a darker and different shade of green, and 
sometimes of a deep bluish-purple, as well as of a madder- red. 
Figures of these two species will ultimately be published in the 
“ Illustrations.” 
Marasmius urens, Fr. 
“ A curious form with the pileus becoming very dark when 
fully grown, and exceedingly acrid, occurred in a hothouse at Coed 
Coch in profusion for many weeks in September and October, with 
the white form of Ag. cepcestipes , and A. meleagris .” — B. Br. 
Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1889. 
