CLASSIFICATION OP AOARK 711 



750. Tricholoma cinerascens IV. Edibli 



Monographia, 1 863. 



Illustration: [bid, PL L53. 



Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. '.'7. Fig. 2. 

 Plate <"U 1 1 of this Report. 



PILEUS 5 l" cm. broad, convex then expanded, obtuse, obscurely 

 fioccose tomentose or glabrous, white or buff, tin n gray, sub nnicolor- 

 ous, moist, even, margin thin, naked. PLE8B white, thick on disk. 

 <;iU,s adnexed, slightly emarginate, close, medium broad, dingy 

 white, becoming yellowish, easily separable tram iiii< us, edge entire. 

 STEM 5-7 cm. long, L-1.5 cm. thick, equal, excepl Bpongy-thickened 

 base, which is often mycelioid-tomentose, spongy-stuffed to hollow, 

 sometimes curved, white, then cinerascent, subglabrous, pruinose at 

 apex. SPORES minute, elliptical, 5x3 micr. (rarely longer). 

 TASTE when crushed, farinaceous. ODOR subfarinaceous. 



Gregarious to caespitose. <>n the ground among decaying leaves 

 in frondose woods. October. Ann Arbor. Infrequent. 



The pileus is more spongy and less firm than in T. tumidum, the 

 uills are close and become more or less ding} yellowish. r l 'lie pileus 

 feels glabrous, although there is an innate fioccosity to it. The 

 ejlls separate from the trama of the pileus as in the genera Lepista, 

 Paxillus ami Gomphidius, etc. It belies it- name, since the fresh 

 plant may become only slightly cinereous. 



751. Tricholoma panoeolum var. caespitosum Bres. 



Fungi Trid., Vol. 2, L892. 

 Illustration: [bid, PI. 1.'.::. 



PILEUS 5-12 cm. (sometimes ap to 20 cm.) broad, convexx 

 panded, then irregular or sinuate-lobed, sometimes eccentric, whit' 

 ish, buff, grayish-brown <>>■ dingy tmi, sometimes shining white, gla- 

 brous or obscurely flocculose on < 1 i - 1< . cutich subcartilaginous, mar- 

 gin persistently incurved. FLESB rather firm, very moist in wet 

 weather or v soaked and then fragile. GILLS very crowded, 



narrow, easily separable from the pileus, varying subdecurreni or 

 truncate adnati <>,■ slightly sinuate, white at first, «oo»i dingy-flesh 

 color. STEM - v cm. long, 8-15 mm. thick, subequal, solid or 

 spongy within, at first covered with white frostiness, then fibrillose, 



