No. 96. 
June, 1892. 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
( Continued from p. 81.) 
FURCATiE. Fries Hym. Fur. 441. 
Pileus compact, firm, covered with a thin, closely adnate pellicle, 
which at length disappears. Margin abruptly thin, at first indexed, 
then spreading, acute , even. Stem at first compact, at length spongy- 
soft within ; gills somewhat forked , with a few shorter ones inter- 
mixed, commonly attenuated at both ends, thin and normally 
narrow. 
1189. Russula (Furcatee) olivascens. Fr. Hym. Fur. 441. Fr. 
Mon. ii., 187. Fries leones, t. 172, /. 2. Cooke Hdbk. vi., y. 321. 
Cooke Illus. t. 1035. Sace. Syll. V., i.797- Krapf. I., t. 9. P 
Pileus everywhere fleshy, flattened, umbilicate, olivaceous, the 
disc becoming yellow, margin even, stem firm, even, white, gills 
attenuated behind, crowded, almost equal, white, becoming 
yellowish ; spores ochraeegus. 
Amongst grass. 
This noble species from its habit is placed with Furcatee, pro- 
bably the rarely furcate gills approach to Fragiles. In many other 
respects it agrees with Compactce. — Fr. Hym. Eur. 441. 
Stem firm, but spongy within, 1J in. long, 1 in. thick, even, white. 
Pileus convex, then flattened, umbilicate, everywhere fleshy, margin 
even, 2 in. or a little more diam., olive, becoming yellowish at the 
disc. Flesh rather thick, white. Gills attenuated behind, touch- 
ing the stem, crowded, broader in front, subequal and rarely furcate, 
white, then becoming yellowish, taste mild. This species agreeing 
in many points with Compactce , but with a different habit, is 
referred to Furcatee. The form of the gills approaches to Fragiles , 
but the pileus to this section. — Fries Mon. p. 187. 
Spores. — 8-10 x 6-8 p, (Britz.) ; 8-10 x 6-8 p (Sacc.) ; 8 p 
diam. (Quel.); 11-12 p (Massee). 
Fries does not consider this to be R. olivascens , Pers. or 
Secretan, No. 498, which he refers to Russula alutacea. 
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