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cuticle, firm, 5 lines thick. It descends irregularly into the 
gills. 
Gills very white, numerous, firm, fragile, slender at the edge, 
often furcate, especially near the stem, sometimes anastomosing in 
the manner of cells. Their greatest width is 4-5 lines about the 
margin of the pileus, becoming narrowed on reaching the stem, 
where they are decurrent by a point. 
Stem white, shining, 3J-4 in. long, 11-12 lines thick, full, straight 
or curved, a little swollen at the summit, of equal thickness in the 
lower part. Odour none. 
var. B. Diam. 2~ in. Stem 1J in. long, 7-8 lines thick. Gills 
bifid, prolonged after their union in a slender plate, rounded at the 
back. The points of these plates alternate, one convex and 
returning, the other prolonged and decurrent, the extremities of 
the plates are twisted and interlaced as a network. 
Obs. Amongst other differences the very numerous gills 
separate this species from A. furcatus. — Secretan. 
Russula (Rigidae) lepida. Fries Fpic. p. 355. Hym. Fur. 444. 
Sverig. Svamp. t. 59. Mon. n ,,p. 191. Sacc.Syll. 18i6. Berk. Out.l. 
212. Stevenson B. F. II., 119. Cooke Hdbk. I., 623, II. 1202. Cooke 
Illus. t. 1072-1073. Hogg 8p Johnst. t. 4. Huss. II., t. 32. Lambotte 
Belg. 322. Gill. Champ. 235. Agaricus rosaceus, Kromb. t. 64, f. 19- 
20. Ag. sanguineus, Batsch Flen. f. 13 (minor). 
Mild. Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then depressed, un- 
polished, rather silky , or rirnosely-squamose, growing pale, margin 
spreading, obtuse, without strias ; stem solid, compact, even , white 
or rosy ; gills rounded, rather thick, somewhat crowded, many 
forked, white. 
In beech woods. 
Very much resembling the following ( R . rubra), but truly 
different. Edible. Pileus rather equally fleshy, blood-red rosy, 
disc always turning whitish. Flesh firm , but cheesy , not granular 
(grumous). Certainly R. rosacea , Pers. Obs., belongs to a firm 
species, without strias ; it is also mild. — Hym. JEur. 444. 
Taste mild, edible. Large, wholly very compact and firm, but 
the flesh is cheesy, not granular. Stem 3 in. long, often 1 in. 
thick, even, white or rosy. Pileus nearly equally fleshy, convex, 
then expanded, scarcely depressed, obtuse, 3 in. broad, opaque, 
unpolished, surface spuriously silky, at length often cracking into 
scales, decoloured. Colour beautiful rosy blood-red, growing pale, 
becoming whitish principally at the disc. Gills rounded behind, 
rather thick, somewhat crowded, often furcate, connected by veins, 
edge, chiefly about the margin, often red, because the margin of 
the pileus is continuous with the gills, as also in R. rubra . — Fr, 
Mon. 191. 
