CLASSIFICATION OF AUAK1' 



'dills itrconiiiuj rufescent, cinereous >>>■ blackish. 

 728. Tricholoma imbricatum lr. (Edibli 



Sys. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Bard, Mushrooms, Fig. •""»::. p. 73, i'-"> x 

 N. V. State Mil*. Rep. 18, PI. 21, Pig. 6-1 1. L896. 

 Pries, [cones, pi. 30. 

 c.»okc. ill.. Plates 60 and L99. 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 676. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 90, Fig. L. 



PILEUS 5-8 cm. broad, convex-plane, obtuse or subumbonate, 

 dry, brownish-red to pale reddish-umber, innately fibrillose-scaly, 

 disk lacerate-scaly, margin thin, a1 firsl incurved and pubescent 

 PLESB compact, firm, whin-, changing to light red when bruised. 

 ( 1 1 LlyS slightly adnexed, sinuate, close, moderately broad, altogether 

 white al first, changing to reddish in age or rufescent-spotted. 

 STEM 5-9 cm. long, L-1.5 cm. thick, solid, firm, equal or subequal, 

 white reddish-brown a1 base, apex white-mealy, elsewhere fibrillose. 

 SPORES broadly elliptical, 5-6.5x I micr. CYSTIDIA and sterile 

 cells none. BASIDIA 24-28x5 micr.. 2-4-spored. ODOB and 

 TASTE mild or slightly farinaceous. 



Gregarious or Bubcaespitose. <>n the ground in coniferous and 

 mixed woods. 



Frequent in the north. Rare in southern Michigan. Detroit. 



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It musl not be contused with T. transmutans, which has a viscid 

 cap, whose surface La bitter to the tongue. The stem La solid or 

 hollowed by grubs. T. vaccinum Pr. differs mainly from this in 

 the stuffed to hollow stem and the more scaly cap"; it occurs also 

 in conifer woods. 



729. Tricholoma vaccinum Fr. (Si 8PE< u.i> 



Syst. M\c L821. 



Illustrations: < l i 1 1 * ■ t . Champignons de France, No. 707. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PL 90, Pig. I. 



PILEUS IT cm. broad, Bubhemispherical to campanulate, then 

 expanded, obtuse op Bubuml ate, dry. cinnamon-rufous to dark 



