36 AGARICACE/E Tricholoma 



99. T. inodermum Gill, (from the fibrils of the pileus ; Gr. is, inos i a 



nerve, derma, the skin) a b. 

 P. pink-buff; mid. brownish, brown-scaly. St. white, then 



partially reddish, mealy above. G. white, red-spotted when 



bruised. Flesh pale pink-buff. 

 Damp, dense pine-woods. 2§ X i\ X \ in. Resembling 93. 



100. T. gausapatum Quel, (from the shaggy pileus ; gausapa, a 



shaggy woollen cloth) a b. 



P. bullate, obtuse, wavy, woolly-fibrillose, somewhat dark-ashy- 

 grey ; edge at first incurved, white-woolly. St. solid, white, 

 fibrillose. G. adnate, pale grey. 



Taste mild ; odour none. Woods; grassy places. Sept.- Oct. 3 x 2 x f in. 



101. T. terreum Quel, (from its earthy colour ; terra, the earth) a b c. 

 P. umbonate, dark purplish-grey or pale slate. St. grey, white- 



pruinose above. G. white to grey. 



Solitary, gregarious or coespitose. Taste slightly rancid ; odour none. 

 Woods, chiefly beech, pine ; common. Aug. -Nov. 3| X 2§ x § in. 

 Often becoming black in drying. Sometimes springing from rose- 

 coloured mycelium or from rhizomorphoid threads. Var. orirttbens Mass. 

 G. red-edged. Var. argyraceiim Mass. Wholly silvery-whitish. Var. 

 virescens W. G. Sm., Agaricus scalpturatus Fr. var. virescens Cooke. 

 Becoming yellowish-green. Var. atrosqziamosum Mass. Black, scaly. Var. 

 chry sites Mass. Becoming yellow. 



101a. T. squarrulosum Bres. (sguarrulosus, scaly) a. 



P. becoming striato-hairy, fuscous to lurid tan ; mid. black- 

 squamulose. St. broadly striato-rough, dark grey-umber on a 

 pale dull salmon ground. G. grey-white as in 101. 

 Under oaks, hazel. Sept. 3^ X 3^ X § in. 



101b. T. horribile Rea {horribilis, rough) a. 



P. dark-fuscous-squamulose, the ground pink at maturity. St. 

 enlarged below, white, smooth, hollow. G. emarginate, crowded ; 

 marg. uneven, whitish, becoming pinkish. Flesh white, becom- 

 ing pinkish and fuscous-spotted. 

 Under beech. 4§ X 3| X 1 in. 



c. Rigidce. 



102. T. maerorhizum Sacc. (Gr. makros, long, rhiza, a root) a b. 



P. smooth, then tessulato-cracked, ochreous-buff. St. whitish- 



ochreous. Flesh slightly yellowish. 



Taste mushroom -like or unpleasant ; odour strong like 113, cadaverous, like 

 Li Hum auratum, like carrion or fetid-sweet, varying pleasant to unpleasant. 

 Nov. 44 X 5§ X 1 J in. Pileus sometimes 8 in. or more in diam. with a 

 long rooting stem in proportion. 



103. T. saponaeeum Quel, (from its soapy odour) a b c. 



P. smooth, then olive-brown scaly. St. pale yellowish-grey, often 



minutely black scaly. G. distant, yellowish-grey-white. 



Woods, hedgesides, etc., amongst leaves; common. Aug. -Nov. 3^X2fxfin. 

 Often reddish when bruised. Must not be confounded with the scentless 

 112b. 



