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RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
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HETEROPHYLLJE. Fries Hym. Fur. 446. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, with a thin margin, which is at first inflexed, 
then expanded and striate, covered with a thin adnate pellicle. 
The gills consist of many shorter mixed with the longer ones, 
along with others which are forked. Stem solid, stout, spongy 
within. 
1209. Russula (Heterophyllae) vesea. Fries Fpic. 352. Hym. 
Fur. 446. Mon. Hym. 193. Stevenson B. F. II., 122. Cooke Hctbk. 
No. 1209. Cooke Illus. t. 1075. Hussey I., t. 89. Fries Sver. Svam. 
t. 63 (a receding form). Berk. Outl. 211. Sacc. Syll. No. 1827. 
Bresad. Trident t. 95. 
Mild , sweet-tasted. Pileus fleshy, firm, umbilicato-convex, 
then plane and infundibuliform, venoso-rugose , and streaked ; reddish 
flesh colour , disc darker , flesh under the viscid cuticle reddish ; 
margin even, or remotely striate ; stem firm, unequal, reticulate- 
rugose ; gills adnate, rather crowded, unequal, and forked, white, 
as well as the stem. 
In woods. Esculent. Flesh white. Taste mild, pleasant. 
Fr. Hym. Eur. 446. 
Stem solid, compact, externally rigid, reticulated-rugose in a 
peculiar manner, sometimes attenuated at the base, white. Pileus 
fleshy, rather firm, plane, depressed, rugulose -veined, with a 
viscid pellicle, red flesh colour, with the disc darker, margin at 
length spreading. Flesh cheesy, firm, white. Gills adnate, 
crowded, thin, white, many unequal and furcate intermixed, but 
scarcely connected by veins. Of medium size. Taste mild, 
pleasant, reckoned edible.- — Fr. Mon. p. 193. 
Spores minutely echinulate, subglobose, 7-8 /x (Bres.). 
Fries has referred none of Secretan’s descriptions to this 
species. It is not always easy to distinguish this from R. cyanox- 
antha, but the disc is usually darker than the margin, whereas in 
the latter the disc becomes pale. In R. vesca the stem is 
commonly rugose or reticulated, whilst in the other species it is 
even. We have not recognized any blue or green colouring in 
the pileus of R. vesca , although usual in R. cyanoxantha. There 
is sometimes a crab-like odour, and the flesh is liable to become 
brownish when bruised. In some respects Russula du Portii , 
Phill., is allied to this species. — M. C. C. 
1210. Russula (Heterophyllae) lilacea. Quel. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 
1876, t. II., f. 8. Cooke Hdbk. ii., 1210. Cooke Illus. 1. 1054. Sacc. 
Syll. No. 1828. 
Pileus convex, then depressed, rather fleshy, viscid, violet or 
purple, margin growing pale, striate (5-8 c.m. diam.), flesh violet 
