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HYMENOMYCETES 
P. 3-4 in., polished, dingy-yellow, pale at maturity, never 
reddish. G. adnexed, rounded, and connected behind, white 
or pale yellowish. S. 2-3 in., stuffed, slightly wrinkled in a 
reticulated manner; white or lemon yellow at first, becoming 
pale steel-grey at maturity. Frequent in fir woods in aut. 
R. granulosa (from the minutely granular pileus and stem 
at maturity) differs chiefly in the granular and persistently 
white stem. 
R. fcetens (from the fetid smell). 
P. 3-6 in., viscid in damp weather; subglobose at first, 
becoming expanded and depressed; margin incurved at 
first, membranaceous, striately ribbed, at length tubercular. 
G. adnexed, crowded, whitish, exuding drops of water when 
young. 5 . 2-3 in., very thick, whitish ; stuffed at first, then 
hollow; frequently eaten out by slugs. Very common in 
woods, bursting from the ground like a yellowish ball, and 
then expanding. The var. sub-fcetens differs in the more 
slender stem and thick, distant gills. 
(b) pileus red or purplish 
R. emetica (from its acting as an emetic), “ The Sickener.” 
Plate VIII. 5. 
P. 3-4 in., flesh reddish under the separable cuticle, 
polished ; rosy at first, then blood-red, sometimes yellowish, 
and bleaching with age to almost white or purplish. G. 
almost free, broad, rather distant, clear white. 5 . 2-3 in., 
white or tinged red ; solid, but spongy within. A showy, 
gregarious species, common in woods and open places from 
July to Dec. Abundant in beech-woods in Oct. Some forms 
are small and fragile, and require to be carefully distin¬ 
guished from R. fvagilis , which appears in August in the 
same localities. In the latter the gills are much more 
crowded, the pileus thinner and softer, the margin tuber¬ 
cular ; and the flesh is always white, never red under the 
cuticle. 
