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RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
For this common species Fries cites Secretan, No. 530. 
R. foetens. Seer. No. 530. Bull. t. 292. 
Pileus in early infancy yellowish white, then passes to dark 
yellowish grey, or yellow ochre leading to orange ; brown in the 
centre, and a lighter tint at the margin, coloured brownish. In old 
age the margin is like golden. It is viscid ; in infancy it is 
globose, the margin bumped and firm, in a sinuous contour ; after- 
wards it becomes plane, humped, and a little raised in the centre. 
Finally it is concave, margin turned in, and channelled, whose 
back is tuberculose. Diam. 6 in. Flesh white, 5 lines thick. 
Gills yellowish white, not very numerous, slender, entire, fragile, 
veined at the base, much anastomosed, especially by the stem ; 
they are straight, and finally convex, joined one to the other by a 
point which adheres to the stem. This junction is produced 
by a bifurcation which terminates each gill, the bifurcation in form 
of two threads, which amalgamate one neighbour to part of the 
other. The front of the gills is prolonged in fine strise on the stem. 
Width of gills 4-5 lines. When touched they are spotted with 
brown. 
Stem white, dull, of yellowish tints, 3J in. long, If in. thick, 
straight, narrowed at the summit, a little thickened in the middle, 
and terminated in a point. Flesh often devoured by slugs, then 
appears hollow. In old age it is covered with long greyish fibrils. 
The odour is certainly foetid. — Seer. 530. 
var. B. Pileus approaches dull white, then turning to a yellowish 
red, shining. It is some time concave, the margin straightened, 
unequally striate and tuberculose in old age. Diam. 2 in. Flesh 
white, 2 lines thick. 
Gills white, turning at length yellowish, straight, arrested at the 
same level, 2 lines wide, fragile, short gills rarely. 
Stem a little reddish, charged with white lines, 2 in. long, 4 lines 
thick, deformed, swollen at the base. The interior is destroyed by 
insects. All the plant is very fragile. Odour foetid. — Seer. 530. 
Agaricns foetens. Pers. Bug. FI. V., 22. 
Gregarious. Pileus 4-5 in. broad, at first convex, the margin 
broadly folded inwards, convex, at length more or less depressed, 
with the margin somewhat vaulted, fleshy in the centre, the margin 
thin, furrowed, and tubercled, the striae appearing as if a glutinous 
membrane were stretched over them, dirty yellow, rather brittle. 
Gills forked, dirty white, or yellowish, moderately broad, connected 
by veins. Stem 3-4 in. high, above 1 in. thick, obtuse, incrassated 
at the base, ruggedly hollow within, as if eaten by snails, white or 
with a dirty yellow tinge, depresso-tomentose ; beneath the gills 
minutely pitted longitudinally, flesh rather yellow. Highly acrid, 
odour very strong and penetrating, empyreumatic, somewhat re- 
sembling that of prussic acid, but exceedingly disagreeable. — 
Berkeley. 
