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This is a very common species, and not easily to be confounded 
with anything else. We have met with specimens without any 
peculiar odour, and also occasionally others which were decidedly 
fragrant, with a suggestion of melilot. As we have submitted the 
latter to the judgment of others who have been with us at the time, 
and they coincided with us, there can be no suspicion of error as to 
the odour. — M. C. C. 
1217. Russula subfcetens. Smith Journ. JBot. 1873 , 337 . CooJce 
HdbJc. ii., 329 . CooJce Illus. t. 1047 . Sacc. Syll.No . 1834 . Stevenson 
II., 124 . 
Pileus bullate, rather viscid, disc fleshy, margin submembra- 
naceous. Stem not stout as in R. foetens, and smaller. Gills 
thick, distant, and branched. Odour unpleasant, taste rather 
acrid. 
On the ground. 
Stevenson says : — “ Pileus bullate, somewhat viscid, disc fleshy, 
margin somewhat membranaceous. Stem not stout ; gills thick, 
somewhat branched.” — Stevenson n., 124. 
Stevenson says also ; — “ This is the plant referred to by Fries, 
Syst. Myc. i., p. 58, as a var. of R. fragilis f but this is doubtful, 
and much more probably R. citrina of Gillet. 
Stevenson gives the derivation of the name as “ sub and foetens 
— somewhat stinking,” but this was not the meaning attached by 
W. G. Smith, who intended it as “ approaching R. foetens .” 
Saccardo calls the gills “ tenuibus ” in error, whereas Smith 
describes them as thick. The whole plant is tough and elastic, and 
the gills are weeping in moist weather, and when young. Certainly 
Russula simillima (Peck) must strongly resemble it. In all the 
specimens that we have met with the odour has been very faint 
and sometimes none at all. — M . C. C. 
1218. Russula (Hetezophyllae) fellea. Fr. Hym. Fur. 447 . Fr. 
Mon. 196 . Fr. Icon. t. 173 ,/. 2 . Sacc. Syll. 1837 . Stevenson II., 125 . 
Faul t. 76 , /. 4 . CooJce HdbJc. II., 1218 . CooJce Illus. t. 1058 . 
Very acrid, pileus fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, polished, opaque, 
not growing pale, margin even, at length striate, flesh firm , stem 
spongy, stuffed, then hollow, even ; gills adnate, crowded, sub- 
equal or bifid behind, all whitish, then straw-coloured. 
In beech woods. 
Is very distinct from all other species in being wholly straw- 
colour, but the pileus is often darker, passing into gilvous; pellicle 
not separable. Gills narrow, weeping in wet weather. — Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 447. 
In beech woods this species is common. 
A small species, noble, very acrid, with no others easily con- 
founded. Odour none. Stem spongy-stuffed, hollow, fragile, 
2 in. long, \ in. thick, equal, even, white, then straw-colour. 
Pileus thinly fleshy, convex, then plane, 1-2 in. broad, polished 
