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STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI. 



transversely, being separated perhaps by the elongation of the stem 

 so that numerous floccose rings are formed, showing the white flesh 

 of the stem between. The upper part of the stem, that above the 

 annulus, is white, but the upper part floccose. 



This plant has been long known in Europe. There is a rather 

 poor figure of it in Schaeffer Table 37, and a better one in Gillet 

 Champignons de France, Hymenomycetes, I, opposite page 76, but 

 a very good one in Bresadola Funghi Mangerecci e Velenosi, Tavel 

 18, 1899. A good figure is also given by Barla, Les Champignons 



des Alpes — Mari- 

 times, PI. 19, Figs. 

 1-6. The plant was 

 first reported from 

 America in the 41st 

 Report, State Muse- 

 um, N. Y., p. 82, 

 1888, under the name 

 Tric/io/oma peckii 

 Howe, from the 

 Catskill Mountains, 

 N. Y. Figure 86 is 

 from plants (No. 

 3991, C. U. herbari- 

 um) collected in the 

 Blue Ridge moun- 

 tains, at Blowing 

 Rock, N. C, during 

 September, 1899. 

 The European and 

 American description 

 both ascribe a bitter 

 taste to the flesh of the pileus, and it is regarded as suspicious. 



There does not seem to be a well formed annulus, the veil only 

 being present in a rather young stage, as the inrolled margin of the 

 pileus is unrolling from the surface of the stem. It seems to be more 

 in the form of a universal veil resembling the veil of some of the 

 lepiotas. It shows a relationship with Tricholoma which possesses in 

 typical forms a delicate veil present only in the young stage. Per- 

 haps for this reason it was referred by Howe to TrkJioIoma as an 

 undescribed species when it was named T. peckii. If its affinities 

 should prove to be with Tricholoma rather than with Armillaria, it 

 would then be known as Tricholo^ua aiirantia. 



Fkiire 87. — Tricholoma personatum. Entire plant grayisli brown, 

 tinged with lilac or purple, spores light ochraceous (natural 

 size, often larger). 



