RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
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Note. — This species should be readily distinguished, amongst 
the red species, by the decurrent gills, as shown in Bulliard’s 
figure. Krombholz, t. 65, f. 1-6, is not of the right colour, and the 
gills are not decurrent. — M. C. C. 
1192. Russula (Furcataa) rosacea. Fr. Hym. Fur. 442. Fr. Mon: 
ii., 188. BerTc. Outl. 210. Cooke Hdblc. I., 618; II., 1192. Sacc. 
Syll. 1801. Stevenson It. F. II., 116. Bull. t. 509, f. Z. = A g. 
exalbicans, Seer. 512 {variety). Cooke Illus. t. 1020. 
Slowly acrid. Pileus compact, convex, then plane, unequal , 
viscid , then dry , variegated with spots , margin acute , even ; stem 
spongy or solid, even, white or reddish ; gills adnate, rather 
crowded, plane, unequal, white, divided behind. 
In fir woods. 
Allied to R. sanguinea, but irregular, often excentric, pileus sub- 
repand, scarcely depressed, gills less crowded, broader, less divided, 
scarcely connected. The colour varies in intensity from flesh- 
colour, viscid pellicle growing pale, blotched with darker spots. — 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 442. 
Taste slowly acrid. Stem solid, firm, internally at length 
spongy, even, smooth, 2 in. long, sometimes ventricose, white or 
reddish. Pileus compact, fleshy, at first convex, then expanded, 
obtuse, but never depressed, commonly unequal, repand, even, 
incised, 2-4 in. broad, pellicle in moist weather viscid and separable, 
but when this disappears the pileus is whitened, often variegated 
with darker spots. Flesh firm, cheesy, white. Gills in all states 
adnate, thin, crowded, fragile, furcate behind, with dimidiate inter- 
mixed, always persistently white. — Fr. Mon. 188. 
Spores. — 7 p (W. G. S.) ; 8-9 x 6-7 p (Britz.) ; 8-9 x 6-7 p 
(Sacc.) 
var. exalbicans. Seer. No. 512. 
Emerging from the ground the pileus is white, a little yellowish, 
streaked on one side with a very faint rose tint ; then it is white, 
the centre yellowish and shining. Sometimes the purple colour 
is confined to one side, sometimes it prevails at the margin, all 
round, in old age the coloured tints disappearing almost entirely, 
and the white turns a little to blackish. It is convex, then plane, 
the centre depressed, the extremity of the margin finely striate. 
Diam. If in. In oldest state the margin is deeply split. 
Gills white, in old age turning to yellowish, they are rather 
numerous, 3 lines wide, adnate. In old age undulated bj alternate 
thickenings, which are most to be remarked near the stem. At 
the point of adhesion they are fastened by numerous buttresses. 
Stem all white, if in. long, 7-9 lines thick, swollen conically at 
the summit, a little thickened at the foot. It is shining, solid, so 
is in general all the plant. 
Obs. — This species, more or less shining, should be distinguished 
with care from R. roseo-granulata. — Seer. 512. 
Note. — The figures of Krapf, Heft, i., t. 1, figs. 1 to 7, may, 
perhaps, belong to this species. 
