CLASSIFICATION OP AGARK 



yellow, variegated with reddiah or Bmokj reddish especially on disk, 

 viscid, Bomewhat Bcalj on broad disk, nol virgate, margin even and 

 naked. FLESH white or tinged yellow under cuticle, thin on 

 margin. GILLS slightly adnexed or aearly free, rounded-trum 

 behind, sulfur-yellow, close, rather broad, ventricose, edge entire or 

 Bnberoded. STEJM stont, 3-6 cm. long, i 2 cm thick, equal or rob 

 bulbous, solid rarely cavernous, pale yellow or white, white within, 

 even, minutely scaly or glabrescent. BPORE8 elliptical-oval, 8-7 

 x I micr., smooth, white. CYSTIDIA and sterili oella Done. ODOK 

 slighl or none; TASTE Bubfarinaceous, tardily disagreeable. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On the ground among or under 

 [eaves in conifer and frondose woods. Ann Arbor, Detroit, Jack- 

 Bon, Houghton, Marquette. August-October. (Earliesl record 

 July 28. 1 [nfrequent. 



This is usually a large and noble species, bu1 late in Che fall it 

 Is often found with Bmaller dimensions. The color of the Btem Is 

 pale yellow or even white, bul in Europe it is Baid to be sulfur 

 yellow, as is also the flesh. The scales on the pileus are nol always 

 developed. The margin of the cap is at firsl incurved and irregu- 

 larly wavy. It differs from T. sejunctum by lacking the radiating 

 sooty lines which characterize the pileus of thai species, and by its 

 yellow gills. It is found sparingly, and rather late in the fall. 

 When covered with leaves the yellow color of the cap is more high- 

 ly developed. 



718. Tricholoma sejunctum FY. EDEBLl 



Syst. Mvr.. 1821. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, Pig. 89, p. sv 

 H.,,,1. Mushrooms, Fig. 60, p. 82, L908. 

 Cooke, 111.. PI. 53. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 700. 

 Fries, [cones, PI. 23 (luxurianl form). 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 89, Pig. 2. 



PILEUS t-8 cm. broad, convex-expanded, obtuse or nmboi 

 8ubvi8cid, whitish to yellowish, streaked with innati 

 fibrils, often gibbous or irregular. FLESH white or slightly yel- 

 lowish, fragile. GILLS emarginate, white, usually broad, sub 

 tant to close, edge entire. STEM elongated, 5-8 cm. long, l 1.5 cm. 

 thick, subequal or variously thickened and 



