•208 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



V. GUTTATA. 



* Gills loTiitish, 



Tricholoma gambosum. Fr. 



Smell resembling fresh meal. Pileiis 3-5 in. across, flesh 

 thick, soft, fragile, white ; hemispherical then convex, at 

 length expanded, obtuse, wavy, even, glabrous, but marked 

 with drop-like spots, at length cracking, but not becoming 

 truly broken up into squamiiles, pallid-tan, margin incurved 

 and downy at first; gills emarginate and adnexed, with a 

 somewhat decurrent tooth, sinuate and decurrent when old, 

 crowded, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, whitish ; stem 2— 2^ in. 

 long, ^1 in. thick, almost equal, base often curved and 

 ascending when growing in clusters, white, apex downy, 

 solid; spores elliptical, 13-14 x 8-1) /x. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma') gamhosus, Fries., Epicr., p. 43; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 37 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 63. 



In pastures, &c. Spring. 



Often growing in circles, or tufted. Smell joleasant, like 

 new meal. 



** Gills discoloured, rufous or smohy. 



Tricholoma amethystinum. Scop. 



Pileus 1^2 in. across, flesh thick, white ; convex then 

 -expanded and often wavy or with the margin slightly 

 upturned, obtuse or with a trace of an umbo, glabrous, even, 

 moist, livid and more or less spotted or stained with blue, 

 margin paler and wrinkled ; gills somewhat adnate, 1 J line 

 broad, crowded, white then rufescent ; stem 1^-2 in. long, 

 3-5 lines thick, attenuated at the base, paler than the pileus, 

 .solid, often slightly bent. 



Agaricus amethystinus, Scopoli, Carn., ii. p. 437; Cke., 

 Bdbk., p. 38; Cke., Illustr., pi. 262. 



In pine woods. 



Pileus pale with a dingy olive tinge, and spotted with 

 clear blue. 



Tricholoma albellum. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick at the disc, becoming thin 

 ■towards the margin, soft, white, unchangeable ; convex tben 



