*** Pileus without any viscid pellicle, dry, commonly hreahing up
into jlocci and granules ; margin straight, not striate.
11. E. rubra, F r . ; acrid; pileus flesliy, rigid, convex, then
flattened or depressed, dry, polished, at lengtli even; margin
patent, obtuse, even; stem hard, solid, stout, white or red ;
gills obtusely adnate, rather crowded, dirty-white, often forked
and dimidiate.—Kromb. t. 65.
In woods. Not uncommon. A splendid species. Pileus
generally intensely red. Plesh grumous.
12. E. lepida, F r . ; mild; pileus fleshy, compact, convex,
then depressed, unpolished, slightly silky or rimoso-squamose,
turning pale; margin patent, obtuse, even; stem solid, compact,
even, wliite or pin k ; gills rounded, rather thick and
crowded, many of them forked, white.—Huss. ii. t. 32.
In woods. Kent, Mr. Hussey. Esculent.
13. E. virescens, F r. ,• mild; pileus firm, fleshy, globose,
then expanded and umbilicate, innato-flocculose or areolate
and warty; margin straight, obtuse, even; stem solid, spongy,
stout, subrivulose, whitish as well as the free, rather crowded,
unequal, and forked gills. (Plate 13, flg. 6.)—Huss. ii. /. 11.
In woods. Not very common. Esculent. Pileus greenish.
Easily known by the rough surface of the pileus.
**#* Pileus brittle, clothed with a viscid cuticle; margin connivent,
but not involute, generally sulcate and tuberculate.
14. E. emetiea, Fr.; acrid; pileus fleshy, flattened out or
depressed, polished, shining; margin patent, at length sulcate
; flesh white under the separable red cuticle ; stem solid,
spongy, firm, elastic, even, white or pink; gills free, equal,
broad, rather distant, white.—Kromb. t. 66. / . 4-7.
In woods, but not common. A large and fine species.
15. E. ochroleuoa, F r .; acrid; pileus fleshy, flattened out
or depressed, polished, adnato-pelliculose, turning pale; margin
patent, even; stem spongy, stuffed, firm, reticulato-rugu-
lose, white, then cinereous; gills rounded behind, connected,
broad, nearly equal, white, becoming pallid.—Kromb. t. 64.
/ . 7-9.
In fir-woods. Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. Pileus bright
pale ochre.
16. E. foetens, F r .; acrid, fetid; pileus búllate, then expanded
or depressed, rigid, viscid from the adnate pellicle;
disc fleshy; margin widely membranaceous, tuberculoso-sul-
cate; stem stout, stuffed, then hollow, dirty-white, as well as
very unequal and forked, venoso-anastomosing, and at first
guttate gills.—Sow. t. 415.
In woods. Extremely common. Known at once by its
disagreeable smell. Much eaten by slugs.
17. E. fragilis, F r .; very acrid; pileus fleshy, thin, plane,
depressed, unequal, polished, viscid from the thin bleaching
pellicle; margin tuherculoso-striate; stem stuffed, then hollow,
shining; gills fixed, thin, crowded, ventricose, white.—■
Kromb. t. 64. /. 12-18.
In woods. The most common species. Generally red, but
assuming a variety of other hues.
18. E. integra, F r .; mild; pileus fleshy, expanded or depressed,
viscoso-pelliculose, changing colour; margin thin, at
length sulcate and tuberculate; flesh white ; stem stuffed,
spongy, even, ventricose, white; gills almost free, very broad,
equal, distant, white, then pallid, dusted with yellow.— Vitt.
t. 21.
In woods. Bristol, C. E. Broome.
19. E. aurata, Fr.; at length acrid; pileus fleshy, rigid,
convexo-plane, shining; margin at length striate ; flesh under
the viscid pellicle lemon-coloured; stem compact, spongy.