88 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



(71.) AGARICUS GAMBOSUS; Tricholoma gambosa; The 

 St. George. 



Habitat. Pastures and fields, near copses and plantation^. 

 Singly, or in groups and rings. 



Season. April to June. Common. 



Pileus. One to four inches across, white, creamy, perhaps pale 

 buff on disc, moist ; convex, expanded, irregular, often lobulate, 

 obtuse. Cuticle adnate, smooth like kid, minutely tomentose, rimu- 

 lose. Margin at first involute, uneven. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, white, stout, firm, sub- 

 flocculose above, incrassate below, naked. 



Section. Flesh white, compact, very thick. Stem solid, or 

 perhaps fistulose below. Gills pallid, creamy, numerous, very 

 narrow, irregular, unequal, emarginate, denticulato-adnexed. 

 Odour strong, musky-fungic. Taste pleasant. Spores white. 



Obs. In chapter vii. In all respects a first-class esculent, and most com- 

 mendable.— IF. D, //. 



(72.) AGAKICUS GRAMMOPODIUS; Tricholoma grammopodia; 

 The Field Darkie. 



Habitat. Damp, poor pastures. In rings. 



Season. August to October. Common. 



Pilens. Three to five inches across, dusky grey-brown, black in 

 wet weather, smooth, moist; convex, then expanding, plane, de- 

 pressed, perhaps obtusely umbonate, repand. Margin thin, brittle. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, pallid, striate with grey, rigid, 

 thick, sulcate, naked, sub-incrassate and villose below. 



Section. Flesh pallid, stained, brittle, not thick. Stem stuffed. 

 Gills pallid, narrow, arcuate, unequal, sinuate, adnate. Odour 

 sickly. Taste nauseous. Spores white. 



Ohn. It appears to be a good deal cateu on the Continent ; but it is very 

 unplcasing, and not at all commendable. It would need preparation like the 

 Stuniptuft. It may easily be mistaken for that much better esculent the Brown 

 I'ratelle, which grows on the same site. — Jr. D. H. 



(73.J AGARICUS GRAVEOLENS ; Tricholoma graveolens ; The 

 False ^luHcat. 



Habitat. Heathy pastures, under firs. Solitary. 

 Season. April to June. Rare. 



