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RUSSULA REDIVIVA. 
and finally concave. Diam. 4 in. Flesh white, 6 lines thick, 
conical. 
Gills white, turning dull white, numerous, slender at the edge, 
singularly fragile, 4 lines broad, straight or convex, adnate ; a few 
short gills. They are much veined, anastomosing. 
Stem covered below with a rose-tint, at length with an ashy- 
grey lustre, 2 in. long, 6-9 lines thick, straight, attenuated and 
recurved at the foot. It remains for a long time very hard, but 
at length it becomes hollow, because the interior is devoured by 
insects. Flesh is ashy-grev. Very distinct species. 
Under firs. 
Obs. — Persoon cites for his A. depoliens Schaeffer’s t. 112, 
which is manifestly a false impression, and which was copied by 
Fries in his Obs. Myc. i., p. 69. It is the plate 92 of Schaeffer 
which he would have cited, which appears to belong rather to my 
A. hemerocalle, var. A. (No. 508, R. emetica). — Seer. 510. 
Note. — This is undoubtedly a common species with us. The 
purplish-red and soon decoloured pileus, with the stem becoming 
cinereous, readily distinguish it. R. maculata has a superficial 
resemblance, but that species is not mild, the gills are coloured, 
and the stem does not become cinereous. — M. C. G. 
1195 b is. Russula (Furcatae) virginea. CTce. $ Mass. Grevillea 
xix., 4. Cooke Illus. Supp. t. 1197. 
Mild. Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then depressed (5 c.m. diam.), 
smooth, even, viscid when moist, polished when dry, margin even, 
snow-white. Stem attenuated upwards, firm, solid (5 c.m. long, 
2 c.m. thick at the base), finely rugulose; gills very narrow, 
crowded, subdecurrent, repeatedly forked, connected by veins, 
brittle, as well as the stem quite white. Spores globose, 4 p diam. 
Under trees. 
Obs. — This species cannot be referred to Russula lactea , by 
reason of the narrow, crowded, and decurrent gills. Neither can 
it be considered as an albino form of R. sanguinea , by reason of 
its mildness. Although hitherto found but once, it lias all the 
appearances of a good and distinct species. 
1196. Russula (Furcatae) purpurea. Gillet Hymen. Ser. xi.,^>Z. x. 
Sacc. Syll. No. 1805. Cooke Hdbk. II., 1196. Cooke Illus. t. 1022. 
Pileus fleshy, at first hemispherical, then convex, and more or 
less depressed in the centre, rugoso-plicate, dark purple, centre 
darker, margin even, or soon striatulate (6-10 c.m.). Flesh 
yellowish, red under the cuticle; stem slightly incrassated at the 
base, longitudinally striate, apex white, middle rosy, base yellowish. 
Gills rounded, broad, often bifid, white, then yellowish = Sacc. 
Under spruce. 
Spores 8-10 x 8 p (Sacc.). 
Obs. — ^Undoubtedly this is closely allied to Russula coerulea , and 
sometimes difficult to distinguish, but the gills do not become so 
