RUSSULA KEDlVlVA. 
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Stem firm, stuffed and soon spongy within, and white, long, com- 
monly attenuated downwards, rosy or purple at the apex, tinged 
with greenish at the base, flesh beneath the cuticle and gills near 
the margin tinged with rose or purple, gills adnate or subde- 
current, rather thick, furcate, white. 
Under trees. 
Pileus as much as 5 or 6 in. in diameter, stem 4 or 5 in. 
long, an inch or more thick at the apex, gradually attenuated 
downwards. Taste mild. Spores white, subglobose, 8 //. diam. 
Cuticle separable at the margin, rosy beneath. 
This variety differs from the typical form in the faintly striate 
margin, persistently mild taste, and in the stem being tinged 
with rose or rosy purple at the apex, and greenish at the base. — 
M. C. C. 
var. graminicolor Seer. No. 518. 
Differs only in the pale green or grass green colour of the pileus, 
and hardly deserves to be regarded as a variety. The following is 
the brief description : — 
var. A. — Pileus pale green, meadow green, darker at the 
centre, dull, but not tesselated, convexo-plane, centre a little 
depressed. Diam. 7-8 in. Gills white, thick, 6 lines wide, 
often furcate. Stem 4 in. long, 1 in. thick, white, a little 
curved and attenuated at the foot. 
var. B. — Pileus a fine grass green, gills white, soft to the point 
of being reduced to a paste. This is smaller than var. A. 
var. ochzoviridis. Cooke Hdbk. ir., p. 322. Illus. 1. 1100. 
Pileus fleshy, flattened, then depressed (4 in. or more), at 
first viscid, polished when dry, with a thin adnate pellicle, ochra- 
ceous towards the margin, disc olivaceous or fuliginous, margin 
spreading, even, acute ; stem short, thick, 2 in. long, 1 in. 
thick, reticulately rugose, white, rarely growing pallid, flesh 
fuliginous or cinereous when cut, stuffed, spongy within ; gills 
attenuated both ways, lanceolate (6 m.m. broad in the centre 1 ), 
crow r ded, many furcate, white, becoming a little dirty white when 
old. Spores white, subglobose, 9x7 fi, faintly granular. Taste 
mild. 
On the ground. 
Obs. — It resembles R. ochroleuca in the rugose stem, but this 
differs in not becoming cinereous, also in the dark dingy olive 
centre of the pileus, narrow gills, discoloration of the flesh, mild 
taste, and large size. In habit it resembles R. furcata , but differs 
in the paler greenish-ochre pileus, narrower gills, rugose stem, and 
discoloured flesh. It differs also from R. ceruginea in the margin 
not being striate, in the stem being short and rugose, and in the 
gills being crowded. 
Spores 9x7 p. — (J/. C. C .). 
