Entoloma 



AGARICACE/E 



103 



All the species grow on the ground in fields and woods chiefly 

 after heavy rain, several appear in spring and summer; none are 

 known to be edible, some are poisonous, many smell of meal. 



Fig. 24. — Section of Entoloma rhodopolium Quel. 

 One-quarter natural size. 



Entoloma agrees in structure and habit with Tricholoma and 

 Hebeloma, and to a great extent with Hypholoma. It is necessary to 

 carefully distinguish the rose- and salmon-coloured spores of Entoloma 

 from the sometimes pale clay-coloured spores of Hebeloma. 



Species 473—502 



a. Genuince. Ellens fleshy, when full grown ; smooth, often 



viscid but not hygrophanous, not innato-floccose or 

 squamulose. 473 — 483 



b. Leptonidece. Pileus dry, except 484, flocculose, somewhat 



scaly. 484—490 



c. NolanidecE. Pileus thin, commonly irregular and repand, for 



the most part scissile, hygrophanous, smooth, with a silky 

 appearance when dry. 491 — 502 



a. Genuince. 



473. E. sinuatum Quel, (from the sinuate margin of the pileus) a b c. 

 P. expanded, then repand, white or shaded tan, lavender, pale 



yellowish or brownish. St. solid, whitish. G. at first livid- 

 whitish, then pinkish, at length brownish-salmon. 



Gregarious. Poisonous. Odour strong, pleasant, somewhat of burnt sugar. 

 Woods, mixed. July .-Oct. 7 X 5 X 1 in. P. sometimes 8 to 10 in. in 

 diam. Young examples are sometimes mistaken for the mushroom. 



474. E. lividum Quel, (from the livid colour of the pileus) a b. 



P. plane, broadly subumbonate, livid tan ; mid. pale yellowish- 

 buff. St. subhollow, whitish. G. adnexo-rounded, salmon. 



Poisonous. Odour of new meal or none. Woods. April-Oct. 4fX3jx£in. 

 Sometimes mistaken for the mushroom. Var. roseum Sacc., P. slightly 

 rose-tinted ; logs. 



