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subflexuous, dry, smooth, zoneless, hrownish-tawny, margin
iuflexed; stem solid, equal, somewhat incurved, paler, turning
yellowish, as well as the crowded gills; milk sparing, of the
colour of serum. (Plate 13, fig. 4.)
In woods. Common. Milk of a watery-white.
22. L. mitissimns, F r .; pileus thin, fleshy, convex and
smooth, then depressed, papillate, dry, zoneless, even, orange,
as well as the stufied, then hollow stem; gills crowded, paler;
milk mild, white.
In woods and on hedge-banks. Not uncommon. Very
abundant about Coed Coch, and extremely beautiful.
23. L. subduleis, F r .; pileus thin, fleshy, papillate, at length
depressed, polished, even, zoneless, rufous-cinnamon; stem
stufied, then hollow, equal, suhpruinose, becoming rufous, as
well as the brittle, crowded gills; milk scarcely acrid, white.
—Sow. t. 204.
In woods. Very common.
24. L. camphoratus, F r .; pileus fleshy, thin, depressed,
dry, somewhat zoned, smooth, brownish-red, as well as the
stufied, somewhat undulated stem ; gills crowded, yellow-red;
milk mild, white.—Bull. t. 567. / . 1.
In woods. Not very common. Bristol, Dr. Stephens, C.
E. Broome. Known by its powerful smell of Melilot, which
it retains for a long time in the herbarium. Pileus 14 inch
across.
25. L. rufus, F r .; pileus fleshy, umbonate, at length funnel-
shaped, dry, flocculose, then smooth and shining, zoneless, dark
rufous; stem stuffed, rufous; gills crowded, ochraceous and
rufous; milk white, extremely acrid.—FIuss. i. t. 15.
In fir-woods. In most districts very common. The umbonate
pileus and acrid milk at once distinguish this dangerous
fungus from the five preceding species.
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26. L. glyciosmns, F r .; pileus thin, fleshy, convexo-plane,
somewhat umbonate, dry, squamulose, lurid, opaque ; stem
stuffed, slender, pubescent, pallid; gills crowded, yellowish-
ochre; milk acrid, white.
In fir-woods. Scotland, D r./ . C. etc. Remarkable
for its peculiar, sweet, but oppressive smell.
27. L. fuUginosus, Fr.; pileus fleshy, soft, depressed, obtuse,
quite dry, zoneless, at first clouded with a dingy bloom,
then naked and cinereous-tan, as well as the spongy, stuffed
stem; gills crowded, tan-coloured; flesh and acrid milk white,
then saffron-coloured.—Bull. t. 567. f . 3.
In woods. Very common. Spores yellowish. The change
of colour in the flesh is often more striking than in the milk.
9. RUSSULA, Fr.
Hymenophorum continuous with the vesiculose trama. Gills
rigid, not milky; edge acute. Veil none.
/ all over; margin consequently even and -without
riis; not clothed with a distinct, viscid pellicle.
1. R. nigricans, Fr. ; pileus fleshy all over, compact, umbilicate,
depressed, dingy-olive; margin inflexed, even, charred
as well as the solid, blunt stem; gills rounded, thick, distant,
unequal.—Row. t. 30; Huss. t. 73.
In woods. Extremely common. Turning quite black in
decay. Flesh reddish when cut. Pileus several inches across.
2. R. adusta, Fr.; pileus fleshy all over, compact, depressed,
then somewhat funnel-shaped; margin at first inflexed, smooth,
then erect, even, dingy, cinereous as well as the blunt, solid
stem; gills adnate, then decurrent, thin, crowded, unequal.—
Kromb. t. 70. / . 7-13.
In woods. Not common. Coed Coch. Smaller than the
last.