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(4 6 c.m. long, 1 c.m. thick), gills snbdecurrent, crowded, pallid, 
pruinate ; milk mild, white. Spores globose, rough, 10 p. diam. 
In woods. Victoria. 
Genus 10. RUSSULA. Pers. in Fries Epic. 349. 
Veil none. Hymenophore descending unchanged into the vesi- 
culose trama ; gills rigid, fragile, without milk, edge acute. Spores 
round, often echinulate, white, or turning yellowish. 
Series 1. Compact®. Pileus everywhere fleshy, margin at first 
turned in, always without striae. Without distinct viscid pellicle. 
No Australian species. 
Series 2. Furcate. Pileus compact, firm, with a thin, closely 
adnate pellicle, margin abruptly thin, acute, even. Stem com- 
pact, then spongy within. Gills rather forked, mixed with a few 
shorter ones, commonly attenuated both ways, thin and narrow. 
393. Russula (Furcate) sanguinea. Bull. Champ, t. 42. 
Fr. Ilyin. Eur. 442. Cooke Ulus. t. 1019. Sacc. Syll. 1800. 
Acrid. Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then gibbous-depressed and 
infund ibuliform, at length even, moist (6-9 c.m. broad) ; margin 
thin, acute, even ; stem spongy or solid, slightly striate, white or 
reddish (3-5 c.m. long) ; gills decurrent, thin, very crowded, some- 
what forked, connected, white. 
In woods. Burnett’s River. 
394. Russula (Furcatse) australieusis. Cke. Mass. Grev. 
xvi., 32. 
Acrid. Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then plane, red, pellicle 
thin, adnate, dry (2 in. diam.) ; stem equal, stuffed, then hollow, 
straw coloured (2 in. long, scarce half an in. thick) ; gills attenuated 
in both directions, scarcely crowded, forked behind, with a decur- 
rent tooth, lemon yellow. Spores globose, rough, 10 p. diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. (Pig. 41). 
395. Russula (Furcate) purpurea. Gillet Tab. Anal. p. 
47. Cooke lllus. t. 1022. Sacc. Syll. 1805. 
Pileus fleshy, at first hemispherical, then convex, and more or 
less depressed in the centre, rugose-plicate, dark purple, darker in 
the centre, margin even, then faintly striate (6-10 c.m. diam.), 
flesh yellowish, red beneath the cuticle; stem slightly incrassated 
at the base, longitudinally striate, white at the apex, rosy in the 
middle, yellowish at the base ; gills rounded, broad, often bifid, 
white, then yellowish. 
Under trees. Victoria. 
Series 3. Rigid*. Pileus destitute of a viscid cuticle, dry, cuticle 
commonly breaking up in granules or flocci. Flesh thick, 
compact, firm, margin never involute, and without stri® ; stem 
solid, hard, then spongy ; gills a few dimidiate, others divided, 
rigid, dilated in front, margin of the pileus obtuse. 
