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THE LARGER FUNGI 
VI. Pel licit- of the pilous viscid, generally separable, possessing numerous 
eystidia, red or purple. Margin rounded, generally striate. Flesh 
fragile. Taste acrid. Gills generally equal, fragile, rounded in front, 
free. Spores pure white, rarely cream-white in mass. 
[232a. Russula fragilis Fr. (L., fnu/ilis, fragile), — Pileus tin. (2.5 cm.), 
depressed in the centre, edge Slightly striate, deep crimson. Gills adnate, close, 
white. Stem Him (3.7 cm.), Jin. (<i mm.) thick, slightly tibrouslv striate, solid, 
white. Flesh reddish under the cuticle. Taste acrid. Spores spherical to oval, 
warty, 9 to 10 g. New South Wales — Sydney. June, July. (Plate IV. Bottom 
right figure.) 
This species resembles R. permnguinm del. but is usually smaller and is 
definitely acrid. | 
VII. Pellicle of the pileus viscid, separable, possessing eystidia, variously 
coloured. Margin rounded, generally striate. Flesh fragile. Gills 
equal, fragile, rounded in front, free or somewhat free. Spores cream 
ochraceous or yellow ochraceous in mass (rarely whitish yellow in 
mass, but then the taste is mild or only slightly acrid when young 
and the pileus is never red). 
* Flesh becoming black, taste mild or slightly acrid when young. 
\’o South Australian species recorded. 
**Flesh not becoming black, taste mild or somewhat acrid when young. 
233. Russula xerampelina (Rchaeff.) Fr. (Or., xerampelinox, of the colour of 
withered vine-leaves). — Pileus up to ;Uin. (8.7 cm.), irregular, rather depressed 
in the centre, splitting and cracking, pallid whitish, blotched with bright brownish 
vermilion. Gills adnate, moderately close, sometimes forking, occasionally in 
deformed specimens forming irregular pores near the stem, pale huffy white. 
Stem 2iim ((1.2 cm.), 1 Ain. (3.7 cm.) thick above, stout, attenuated downwards, 
root rather conical, fibrously striate, white with tinges of pink. Flesh solid, 
white, rather rigid. Slight smell. Taste mild. Spores warty, pale ochraceous 
tinted microscopically, S.5 to 10.5 g. Partly buried under soil. South Australia — 
Mount Lofty. April. 
234. Russula Mariae Peek. (Named by Dr. Charles H. Peck, New York State 
Botanist, after his wife Mary). — Pileus usually up to 2in. (5 cur.), sometimes 
to 4iin. (11.2 cm.), nearly plane, the centre depressed, edge striate, slightly 
viscid, the cuticle peeling leaving tints of red beneath, purplish to crimson 
( Vinaeeous Purple, Slate Purple to Vinaeeous Lake, xliv.j Dark Purple Drab, 
xlV.; near Diamine Brown, xm.; Dark Vinaeeous Grey, l.; Garnet Brown, i; 
in the centre surrounded by Nepal Red, x.) usually somewhat irregularly dis- 
tributed, paler in places and towards the periphery. Gills adnate, moderately 
close, sometimes forked at their junction with the stem, narrowed internally, 
equal, pure white to creamy white, edges rarely finely serrate and with pink tints. 
Stem up to 24in. (6.2 cm.), slender to stout, slightly striate, solid or tending 
to be excavated in the centre, more or less extensively tinted or punctate with 
Light Corinthian Red (xxvn.), near Old Rose (xm.), Deep Purplish Vinaeeous 
(xijv.), or Flesh Pink to Coral Pink (xm.) or sometimes pure white (?). Flesh 
narrowed outwards. Taste injild. Spores subspherical, warty, nearly white, 
7.. i to 9.o n, 9.2 to 19.4 x 7.8 to 8.5 /i. South Australia- — Mount: Lofty, National 
Park, Upper Tuukalilla ('reek, Kuitpo. New South Wales. United States of 
Amjerica. March, Aipril, June, July. (Plate V. Left figure.) 
Tn the description given by C. 14. Peck, in New York State Museum, Bulletin 
116, Botany 10, 1907, the pileus is described as pruinose or minutely pulverulent. 
Peck gives coloured illustrations of his S. Marine in Bulletin 75, Botany 7, 1904. 
235. Russula persanguinea Clel. (L., persangmneus, very blood-red). — Pileus 
1( to Tin. (3 to 10 cm.), slightly convex with the centre depressed, finallv some- 
times slightly upturned, usually slightly striate to tuberculo-rugose 'at the 
periphery, edge rather rounded, pellicle peels, viscid when moist, Garnet Brown 
(i.), Nepal Red (i.), Claret Brown (l), Dragon’s Blood Red (xm.), Brick Red 
(xm.) or Pompeian Bed (xm.), i.e., tints near blood red. Gills adnexed, 
