Leucosporee 



ness. Taste at first farinaceous then sweetish. The caps are of excellent Trickoioma. 

 quality and flavor. 



PileilS fleshy, compact, 

 (Plate XXIII.) 



TRICHOLOMA IMBRICATUM. 

 One-halt' natural size. 



T. imbrica'tum Fr. covered with tiles, 

 convex or nearly plane, obtuse, dry, 

 innately scaly, fibrillose toward the 

 margin, brown or reddish-brown, the 

 margin thin, at first slightly in flexed 

 and pubescent then naked. Flesh firm , 

 thick, white. Gills slightly emargi- 

 nate, almost adnate, rather close, 

 white when young, becoming reddish 

 or spotted . Stem solid, firm , nearly 

 equal, fibrillose, white and mealy or 

 pulverulent at the top, elsewhere col- 

 ored like the pileus. JSpOl'es 6.5x 



4-5 /* 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad. Stem 2-3 

 in. long, 4-10 lines thick. Under or near coniferous trees. Greene and 

 Essex counties. September and October. 



This is an edible species. It has a farinaceous odor and taste when 

 fresh. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Closely resembles T. transmutans in size, color and taste. It is, how- 

 ever, easily separated by its dry cap and solid stem. Peck. 



Plentiful in pine woods of New Jersey, and among hemlocks in West 

 Virginia. Mt. Gretna, Pa., under pines. October and November, 

 1898. Mcllvaine. 



Specimens found at Mt. Gretna had caps dark umber when young, 

 and margin incurved to stem. Gills yellowish. Stem up to 4 in. long, 

 stout, solid, swollen at base, and having a short pointed ending, firm, 

 fibrillose, white. Flavor farinaceous. 



Flesh of good texture and taste. 



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