188 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



II. GENUINA. 



* Gills not discoloured nor spotted. 



Tricholoma rutilans. Schaeff. 



Pileus 3-6 ill. across, flesli thick, soft, deep yellow from 

 "the earliest stage, becoming golden-yellow when broken ; 

 semiovate, obtuse, and with the margin incurved when 

 young, entirely covered with a dense, uninterrupted coating 

 of dark purple or reddish-brown down ; when older becoming 

 campanulate and often umbonate, purple, all one colour ; 

 -^when mature convex then expanded, often umbonate, the 

 cuticle broken up into small, innate flocose squamules, 

 yellow, variegated with purple ; always dry ; gills yellow 

 from the first, broadly adnexed, crowded, edge thickened, 

 obtuse, floccose, often wavy ; thinner, broader, and less 

 <3rowded when adult, edge deep yellow, sides paler; 2-3 in. 

 long, I in. thick, fleshy, imperfectly hollow, soft, bulbous 

 Avhen short, ventricose when elongated, yellow; variegated, 

 especially upwards, with purplish, floccose squamules ; spores 

 subglobose, 5—6 /x diameter. 



Agaricus rutilans, Schaeffer, t. 219; Cke., Hdbk., p. 28; 

 •€ke., Illustr., pi. 89. 



Agaricus serratus, Bolton, t. 14. 



Agaricus xerampelinus, Sow., t. 31. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Inodorous. Dimensions very variable ; in large specimens, 

 usually caespitose, stem 1-2 in thick, pileus up to a span 

 broad, but usually much smaller. (Fries.) 



Commonly confounded with T. variegatum, from which it 



differs in the flesh being yellow from the first, and deeper 



in colour; and more especially in the downy or floccose 



•margin of the gills being deep yellow at maturity. In 



T. variegatum the margin of the gills is quite entire. 



Tricholoma variegatum. Scop. 



Pileus 2—4 iti. across, fragile, flesh thickish, whitish at 



first, then -pale yellow; expanded when adult, very obtnso 



•or with a trace of an umbo ; more or less densely and entirely 



or in part covered with reddish-purple downy tufts on a 



