. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. GENUS X. — Russula (russulus, reddish). Pers. Fr. Epicr. i. p. 349. Veil none. Hymenophore descending unchanged and forming a vesicular trama. Gills rigid, fragile and not milky, acute at the edge. Spores rounded, often echinulate, white or yellowish. Growing on the ground, fleshy, putrescent, with polished stein, and pileus at the first or at length de- pressed. The Russulae constitute a very natural group, allied to the Lactarii, but very easily distinguished from them by their want of milk. Vari- ous Russulae
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. GENUS X. — Russula (russulus, reddish). Pers. Fr. Epicr. i. p. 349. Veil none. Hymenophore descending unchanged and forming a vesicular trama. Gills rigid, fragile and not milky, acute at the edge. Spores rounded, often echinulate, white or yellowish. Growing on the ground, fleshy, putrescent, with polished stein, and pileus at the first or at length de- pressed. The Russulae constitute a very natural group, allied to the Lactarii, but very easily distinguished from them by their want of milk. Vari- ous Russulae however exude watery drops, especially in rainy weather. The gills of most of them are equal in length or furcate, but in the tribe of the Compacts they are quite un- equal. The species are for the most part striking in appearance : the Fragiles, the most common tribe, are difficult to determine on account of the variations of their colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 439. The most protean species is R. integra. Fries warns beginners to beware of making out new species in the neighbourhood of this, and of ascribing forms of it to truly distinct species which are of comparatively rare occurrence. On account of the danger of mistaking noxious species for the few which are edible, their use as food is not to be commended. I. COMPACTS (compingo, to put together : compact). Pileus fleshy throughout, hence the margin is at first bent inwards and always without striae, without a distinct viscous pellicle (in consequence of which the colour is not variable, but only changes with age and the state of the atmosphere). Flesh compact, firm. Stem solid, fleshy. Gills unequal. II. FURCATE (furca, a fork. With forced gills). Pileus compact, firm, covered with a thin, closely adnate pellicle, which at length disappears, margin abruptly thin, at first inflexed, then spreading, acitte, even. Stem at first compact, at length spongy-soft within. Gills somewhat forked, with a few shorter ones intermixed, c
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