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RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
smooth, gilvous straw-colour, disc darker ; margin even, when 
exolete faintly striate. Pellicle of the pileus closely adnate, thin ; 
flesh of the colour of the gills. Gills adnate, crowded, thin, narrow, 
obsoletely connected by veins, mixed with a few dimidiate or furcate 
behind, straw colour. Also in this the gills in moist weather weep 
drops of water. — Fr. Mon. 196. 
Fries quotes Secretan No. 501 under this species. 
21 . fellea. Seer. No. 501. 
Pileus straw yellow, of an uniform tint, the margin browning in 
extreme old age. It is a long time plane, sometimes a little 
umbonate, ordinarily rather regular, orbicular, the margin straight, 
thin, without striae except in extreme old age. Diam. 2£ in. ; it 
becomes concave. Flesh yellowish, 3 lines thick, firm. 
Gills white, then yellowish, numerous, straight or convex, 
adnate, slender, fragile, some furcate near the stem, 1J lines wide, 
very few or no short gills. 
Stem yellowish white, dull, If in. long, 6 lines thick. Straight, 
a little augmented above, and narrowed towards the base, which 
ends in a point. Flesh yellowish, firm. Odour a little agreeable. 
Taste acrid, burning. — Seer. 501. 
In mixed woods. 
1219 . Russula (Heterophyllae) elegans. Bres. F. Trid., p. 21, t. 
xxv. Sacc. Syll. 1838. CooJce Hdbk. II., 1219. CooJce Illus. t. 1027. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then rather depressed, margin when 
adult tuberculose striate, viscid, bright rosy flesh colour, soon the 
circumference suffused with ochraceous, wholly densely granulate, 
3-5 c.m. diam. Gills attenuate behind, adnexed, or slightly 
rounded, very much crowded, equal, rarely somewhat furcate, 
whitish, when mature entirely or here and there bright ochraceous ; 
orange stem, spongy, then stuffed and lacunose, hollow, somewhat 
thickened at the base, white, ochraceous below, rather rugulose, 
3-5 c.m. long, 1 c.m. thick; flesh white, when old ochraceous, 
acrid. Spores sphaeroid, beautifully echinulate, uniguttulate, 
whitish in heaps, greenish hyaline under microscope, 8-10 /x, 
basidia clavate, 20-25 X 8-10. — Bresadola. 
In moist woods. 
Spores 8-10 /x diam. (Sacc.), 10 p. (G. M.). 
1220 . Russula (Heterophyllae) Queletii. Fr. Hym. Fur. 448. Sacc. 
Syll . 1839. Stevenson II., 125. Cooke Hdbk. 1220. Coolce Illus. t. 
1028. Quelet Jura t. 24, /. 6. 
Acrid, pileus compact, campanulate, convex, then plane, even , 
viscid, dark violet or fuscous, margin slightly striate, purplish lilac ; 
stem spongy, farinose , purple violet ; gills attenuated, unequal, or 
furcate, weeping , white. 
In pine woods. Spring. 
Flesh firm, white, purple red under the cuticle. The drops on 
the gills when dry leave bluish grey or pale olive spots. 
