Leucosporaa 



4-5X4/U, K.; 5X4/A W.G.S. Tricholoma. 



West Virginia, 1882; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, in woods and open 

 places. May to November. Mcllvainc. 



It is one of the first toadstools I experimented upon. I have been 

 constant to it. Its caps fried in butter are unsurpassed. 



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Gills discolored, ^^sllally spotted with reddish-brown. 



T. fla'vo-bnm'neum Fr. flavus, yellow; brunneus, brown. PileuS 

 fleshy, conical, then convex, at length expanded, subumbonate, viscid, 

 clothed with streak-like scales. Stem hollow, somewhat ventricose, 

 fibrillose, at first viscid, yellowish within, tip naked. Gills emarginate, 

 decurrent, crowded, yellowish, then reddish. Fries. 



Odor that of new meal. Stem 3-5 in. long, >a in. thick, dull-reddish 

 or brownish. PileuS 3-6 in. broad, disk darker, dingy dull-red or 

 reddish-brown. 



North Carolina, Curtis; damp woods, A. fulvus, Schweinits. 



Edible, Cooke, 1891. 



T. rus'sula Schaeff. reddish. (Plate XVIII, fig. 3, p. 60.) PileuS 

 fleshy, convex, becoming plane or centrally depressed, obtuse, viscid, 

 even or dotted with granular squamules on the disk, red or incarnate, 

 the margin usually paler, involute and minutely downy in the young 

 plant. Flesh white, sometimes tinged with red, taste mild. Gills sub- 

 distant, rounded behind or subdecurrent, white, often becoming red- 

 spotted with age. Stem solid, firm, whitish or rose-red, squamulose at 

 the apex. Spores elliptical, 7x4/1. 



PileuS 3-5 in. broad. Stem 1-2 in. long, 6-8 lines thick. 



Mixed woods. Albany. Cattaraugus and Steuben counties. Sep- 

 tember and October. 



According to the description the typical plant has the pileus incarnate 

 and the stem rosy-red, but in the American plant the pileus is generally 

 more clearly red and the stem white, though this is often varied by red- 

 dish stains. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Mixed woods. August until after frost. At Mt. Gretna, Pa. 1897- 

 1898 the patches were large, generous yielders. 



Edible, Cooke; edible, Cordier, Roqnes. 



T. russula is a dressy fungus and has a fashion of its own. The mot- 

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