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Spores sub-globose, 71/2-9 x 7-8 warted, with fine lines
between some of the warts.
Cystidia of gills mostly with filiform appendage and covered
with an encrustation which does not reach the apex and dis-
solves in water.
No cystidia on cuticle of pileus.
Habitat : in deciduous woods, especially oak and birch.
This beautiful Russula is fairly common in woods in the
early autumn. It is easily recognizable by its brilliant scarlet
pileus, cream or ochraceous gills and bitter taste after mastica-
tion. When young it looks very like Russula lepida, which has
white gills and a mat powdery surface of the pileus.
The R. pseudo-integra described by Crawshay in his book
"Ornamentation of the Russulas" is not this species.
Astrosporina decipientoides (Peek) Pears.
Inocybe decipientoides Peck sec Kuhner et Boursier, Bull.
S.M. Fr. xlviii., p. 141.
Inocybe globocystis Velen. sec Heim. Le Genre Inocybe, p.
326 and Pl. 26, fig. 3.
Pileus 1-3 cm. thin except in centre, conical then expandin
round the persistent umbo, brown-ochraceous, bay brown in
centre, covered with dense adpressed radial silky fibrils, which
deepen in colour and separate into shaggy squamules when old
showing the white flesh underneath. The umbo may be smooth
or show traces of the tomentose veil.
Gills crowded or sub-distant, fairly wide, thin, cream then
ochraceous, ventricose, sinuate, adnexed or sometimes adnate
the whole width of gill.
Stem 2-4 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, white at first, then pale
ochraceous or reddish brown under the fibrillose surface, white
pruinose at summit, solid.
Flesh grey when wet, white when dry. Smell unpleasant
or none. Taste mild.
Spores angular oblong, 8-10 x 5-8, with pentagonal profile.
Cystidia on edge and face of gill pyriform or globular, usually
muriculate at apex, hyaline, very variable in size, average about
45 x 20μ, width may be up to 40μ.
Habitat: on the ground solitary or in groups, among grass
on paths of woods.