RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
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under the cuticle ; stem spongy, corticate, fragile, pruinose above, 
rosy at the base , gills distant, ventricose, white, connected by 
veins. 
In moist woods. Odour faint, pleasant ; taste mild. 
We have only met with this species two or three times, which 
agrees in some features with R. vesca , but with the margin 
striate ; this is also sometimes faintly traced in R. vesca. The 
stem is softer, and more spongy, usually attenuated and rosy 
below, but white and pruinose above. Whether it will be main- 
tained as a distinct species depends upon a more extended 
acquaintance, but it certainly differs in habit and appearance. — 
if. C. C. 
1211. Russula (Heterophyllae) azurea. Bres. Fungi Trid. t. 24. 
Coolce KdbJc. II., 1211. Cooke Illus. t. 1088. Sacc. Syll. 1845. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane or depressed, soon dry and 
even, constantly minutely granulose, margin scarcely striate, 
bright blue, margin sometimes lilac, growing pale, cuticle separable 
(4-6 c.m. diam.), stem white, ventricose, or clavate at the base, 
smooth, rugulose, rather firm, spongy, a little hollow when old 
(4-5 c.m. x 10-15 m.m.), flesh white, mild; gills crowded, equal, 
attenuated behind, adnexed, and bifid, white, unchangeable. — 
Bresadola. 
In fir woods. 
In former times this little species was undoubtedly, in this 
country, included under Russula heterophylla , with which it still 
seems to be more closely allied, or Russula cyanoxantha , than with 
R. emetica and other species of Fragiles. When fresh the pileus 
is covered with a delicate “ bloom ” like that of plums. — M. C. C. 
Spores 9 x 8 p . 
1212. Russula (Heterophyllae) cyanoxantha. Schceff. Ic. t. 93. 
Fr. Sym. Fur. 446. Fr. Mon. p. 194. Sacc. Syll. 1829. Paul. t. 76, 
/.1-3. Stevenson II., 122. Cooke Hdbk. n., 1212. Cooke Illus. t. 
1043, 1076,1077. Kromb. t. 67, fig. 16-19. Vittadini t. 27. 
Mild, pileus compact, convexo-plane, then depressed or infundi- 
buliform, viscid, variegated , margin rather blue, at length faintly 
striate, stem spongy, stuffed, even f smooth, white, gills rounded 
behind, broad, mixed with shorter ones, and furcate, white. 
In woods. Beech, etc. 
Flesh firm, cheesy, commonly reddish under the separable 
pellicle. Colour peculiar, from lilac or purplish, greenish-olive, 
disc commonly growing pale, sometimes turning yellowish. — Fr. 
Hym. Fur. 446. 
Taste mild, pleasant, allied to R. vesca , but the colour of the 
pileus in that species is immutable, in this it is variable, and on 
other points constantly different. Stem spongy, stuffed, but firm, 
when old sometimes hollow, 2-3 in. long, to 1 in. thick, equal, 
