CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARI 

 **(jills becoming rufesoeni or reddish-spotted in a 



722. Tricholoma transmutaiis I'k. Edibi \ 



N. V. State -Mus. Rep. 29, L878 



Illustrations: Peck, N. V. State Rlus. Bep. L8, PL 21, Pig I 

 L896. 



PLLEU8 HO cm. broad, convex-expanded, obtu 

 pellicle bitter, brownish, reddish-brown or tawnj red pla 



brous or nearly bo. FLESB white, rufescenl In age, thin on m 

 gin. (ill-liS adnexed, emarginate, narrow, close, whitish or pale 

 yellowish, hi l< in/Hi rufe8ceni or reddish-spotted, tin. ill ii«l 



blackish. STEM 6-8 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick, equal or Rubeqnal, 

 dry, glabrous or Bubfibrillose, whitish or \ nt, solid, sonu'tii 



cavernona above. SPORES oval-globose, 5s i micr., Bometii 

 nucleate. CYSTIDIA Done. ODOR and TASTE of flesh distinctly 

 farinaceous, pellicle of cap bitter. 



Gregarious, scattered or subcaespitose. On the ground in fro 

 dose woods, sometimes forming mycorhiza on thi roots oj th< block 

 oak. Ann Arbor, Jackson, Detroit, Ne^ Richmond. Septemb 

 October (earliesl record August 9). Common in southern liichi 

 -.in. 



It is related t<> the European species T. (lavobrunneu 

 T. frumentaceum Fr. which possess :i farinaceous odor. Tin- fon 

 lias a vis. id stem ;it first and the flesh i- usually yellow. 

 '/'. frumentaceum, there seems i" !"■ Borne uncertainty, 

 authors say tin- spores are elliptical, and Cooke I .in 



Entoloma (111., Plate 170). Thai cannol I ur plant <>n the 



other hand, continental authors are Bilenl as to th< 

 although Barla mentions a variety with spherical spon 

 of '/'. transmutans is usually Bolid, but often tunnelled l- 

 warm weather. When growing in the open, in pai 

 usually tufted and the pileus is irregular, il 

 Inn eating 



