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RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
Although described as not having a distinct pellicle, it is easy in 
damp weather to strip off the cuticle from the margin inwards for 
half an inch or more ; beyond this it is truly adnate. 
The colour of the pileus from the margin up to the decoloured 
disc varies in intensity as well as in tone. Sometimes the rose is 
replaced by lilac, almost violet, or, more commonly, by a light warm 
brown, tinged with purple or rose. The disc also deepens into 
orange or orange brown. Whatever the variations in colour may 
be, the breaking up of the cuticle into granules seems permanent, 
and distinguishes the species. It is more minute and of a different 
character to the cracking of the cuticle in R. cutefracta. When 
cut the flesh of the stem commonly turns foxy at the base, but no 
odour is distinguishable. — M. G. C. 
We have never seen specimens which we could refer to either of 
the other two forms described by Secretan, as follows : — 
R. tinctoria. Seer. 
Pileus when young of rather a finer rose colour at the margin, 
later on zoned with red, the centre dark, of a dull aspect. The 
general colour passes to a very bright purple, always opaque, then 
of a dark purple, mixed with yellow at the centre, and finally of a 
deep lilac, with a large yellowish-white centre. In form it 
approaches convex, with the margin perpendicular, and the centre 
prominent ; at length the centre is depressed, and the pileus 
becomes plane. Diam. 3f in. Flesh yellowish-white, firm, compact, 
6 lines thick. Gills nearly white, then yellow, bright, numerous, 
rather fragile, 3-4 lines wide, their greatest width by the margin of 
the pileus. Many of them are furcate, and branched behind near 
the stem. Stem white, 2\ in. long, 9-11 lines thick, straight, or 
slightly curved, thickened below, at first very hard, then becoming 
soft, and at length hollow. What is very remarkable is that the 
plant in the young state throws off water, which leaves a tint of 
beautiful rose. — Seer. 487 A. 
R,. pallida. Seer. 
Pileus dull-white, with faint tints of rose, which pass into light 
violet. For some time plane, then concave, the margin turned up. 
In dry weather the surface is broken in the form of large scales, 
and the margin deeply split. Diam. 4 J in. Gills white, beginning 
to turn yellow at the circumference, and at length becoming yellow, 
rather numerous, 5 lines wide, straight, or following the inflection 
of the pileus, distant from the stem. Stem dull-white, with a rosy 
tint at the apex, 1^ in. long, 9 lines thick, swollen above and 
below, and rounded at the base. At first solid, then becoming 
soft. — Seer. No. 487C. 
Gillet has a variety called rubromarginata , from the edges of the 
