Agaricaceae 



Tricholoma. 



(Plate XXI.) 



TRICHOLOMA RUTILANS. 

 About three-eighths natural size. 



mallow confection. 



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

 in. long, 58 lines thick. 



On or about pine stumps, rarely on 

 hemlock trunks. July to November. 

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



Spores subglobose, 5-6/A diameter 

 Massce; 6-8x6^ B.; 6x9^ W.G.S. 



West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey. May to November. Mc- 

 Ilvaine. 



Quite common in West Virginia 

 mountains and in pine woods of New 

 Jersey. The Boston Mycological 

 Club reports it found in quantity in 

 Massachusetts. The flesh when 

 cooked is gummy, like the marsh- 

 It is excellent. 



** Gills becoming reddish or gray , etc, 



T. vacci'mim Pers. vacca, a cow. PileilS fleshy, convex or cam- 

 panulate, becoming nearly plane, umbonate, dry, floccose-scaly, reddish- 

 brown, the margin involute, tomentosc. Flesh white. Gills adnexed, 

 subdistant, whitish, then reddish or reddish-spotted. Stem equal, hol- 

 low, covered with a fibrillose bark, naked at the apex, pale reddish. 



Spores subglobose, 6fj.. 



PileilS 1-3 in. broad. Stem 2-3 in. long, 4-6 lines thick. 



Under or near coniferous trees. Greene and Essex counties. Sep- 

 tember and October. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Recorded as edible by Gillet. 



Plentiful in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Have eaten it 

 since 1885. Fair. 



T. flllig'i'neum Pk. fuligineus, resembling soot. PileilS convex or 

 nearly plane, obtuse, often irregular, dry, minutely scaly, sooty-brown. 

 Flesh grayish, odor and taste farinaceous. Gills subdistant, uneven on 

 the edge, ash-colored becoming blackish in drying. Stem short, solid, 

 equal, bare, ash-colored. Spores oblong-elliptical, 



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