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colour or greyish-brown when young, at length hoary but 

 not becoming discoloured when dry, but shining. Flesh 

 thin, white. Gills emarginately adnexed, crowded, 1-2 

 lines broad, clear white. Sometimes the pileus is pul- 

 verulent but never silky. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma subpulverulentum. Pers. 



Pileus about 1 ^ in. across, flesh rather thick, hygrophanous ; 

 convex then plane and depressed at the disc, even, livid 

 but innately pruinose, becoming wdiitish and hoary, margin 

 slightly projecting beyond the gills, and this portion in- 

 curved ; gills rounded behind, without a decurrent tooth, 

 crowded, 1 line broad, white ; stem 1-2 in. long, 2-3 lines 

 thick, often ascending, solid, equal, glabrous, slightly striate, 

 whitish ; spores 5 X 3 /x. 



Agancus suhpiilverulenhis, Persoon, Myc. Eur., iii. p. 221 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 219; Cke., Hdbk., p. 43. 



In pastures. 



Pileus 2 in. across ; dirty white or greyish, with a white 

 lustre. (Cooke.) 



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Gills violet, grey, or smoJcy, 



Tricholoma sordidum. Fr. 



Pileus 1-3 in. across, rather fleshy ; campanulately convex 

 then plane or slightly depressed, more or less umbonate, 

 glabrous, undulating when old ; livid lilac, brownish or flesh- 

 coloured violet when young, becoming discoloured when old, 

 and the entire fungus squalid and brownish, becoming pale 

 when dry ; margin slightly striate when adult ; gills at 

 fl.rst rounded behind, then sinuate and slightly decurrent, 

 rather crowded, at length truly distant, violet then pallid or 

 smoky ; stem about 2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, base usually 

 thickened, slightly incurved, fibrillosely striate, coloured 

 ]ike the pileus ; spores elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4 fx, minutely 

 rugulose. 



Agaricus sordidus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 51 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 100 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 44 (small). 



On the ground ; among manure, &c. 



Allied to Tricholoma nudum, but much smaller and more 

 slender, very tough, hygrophanous. (Fries.) 



