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fcUSSULA HEDlVlVA. 
snch as R. nivea (which is R. fragilis), R. depallens , etc. — Fr. 
Mon. ii., 190. 
Krombholz describes it thus : — “ Usually solitary ; pileus always 
depressed, white or whitish, compact, fleshy, smooth ; margin 
straight, thin, rather obtuse, even ; gills broad, distant, thick, 
rigid, quite entire, white, simple, rarely forked ; stem rather long, 
compact, solid, rather thick, smooth, white, a little attenuated above 
and below ; flesh firm, taste mild, odour none. 1 ’ — Krombh. vm., 23. 
The figures of Barla (t. 15, f. 11-13), quoted by Fries under 
this species, are referred by Quelet to the supposed species which 
he names R. incarnata , but which we consider as only a variety of 
the above. 
var. incarnata {Quel.). Cooke Hdbk. n., 1199. Cooke Illus. t. 
1071. Russula incarnata, Quel. Ass. Fr. 1882, p. 10. Sacc. Syll. 1881. 
R. lactea, Barla t. 15,/. 11-13. 
Pileus convex, then depressed (6-9 c.m. wide), mealy, then 
areolate, white, tinged with rose, at length tan-coloured, growing 
pallid; flesh granular, white, sweet, sapid; stem stuffed, firm, 
pruinose, snowy-white; gills adnate, broad, bifurcate, rigid, 
yellowish-white ; spores elliptically spherical, 9 /x, aculeolate, 
hyaline, then lemon-yellow. — Quelet. 
Under firs. 
Barla’s description in the text, is literally the same as that of 
Krombholz for R. lactea , quoted above. 
var. livida. Bresadola Hedwigia 1885, p. 10. 
Pileus fleshy, soon depressed in the centre, flattened, then in- 
fundibuliform (3J-7 c.m. diam.) ; margin even, very light smoke 
colour, whitish when old, sometimes yellowish ; gills rounded 
behind, or obtusely acuminate (2-4 m.m. broad), acuminately 
adnexed, white, becoming yellowish, at first somewhat crowded, in 
old age distant ; stem stuffed, subcylindrical (2-3£ c.m. long, 7- 
10 m.m. thick), white; flesh dense, white ; taste mild, or scarcely 
acrid ; spores white, rather yellowish, globose, very minutely 
echinulate (4-5 ix diam.). — Bresadola. 
In woods. 
Russula (Rigidae) virescens ( Schceff 1). Fries Fpic.p. 355. Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 443. Mon. w., 191. Berk. Outl., t. 13, /. 6. Cooke Hdbk. 
I., No. 622, ii., No. 1200. Stevenson B. F. n., 119. Gillet Champ. 
234. Cooke Illus. 1039. Sacc. Syll. 1810. Agaricus virescens, Schceff'. 
Icon. t. 94 (not fig. 1). Hussey \l.,pl. xi. Vittadini t. 31. Barla t. 
16,/. 10-12. Venturi t. 17, f. 1-2. Sturm. FI. ill., t. 31. Fng. FI. v.. 
23. Badham, p. 101. Russula aeruginosa, Krombh. t. 67, /. 1-10 
Pers. Obs. 103. 
Mild. Pileus fleshy, firm, globose, then expanded and umbili- 
cate, innately Jlocculose, or areolate and w acted ; margin straight, 
obtuse, even ; stem spongy or solid, stout, somewhat rivulose, 
whitish ; gills free, rather crowded, unequal and forked, whitish. 
In birch woods, etc. 
Pileus often unequal, always dry, cuticle falling away in areola?. 
