212 FUXt US-FLOEA. 



uniformly livid-grc}", the extreme margin projecting beyond 

 the gills and incurved ; gills emarginate, closely crowded, 

 plane, 3-4 lines broad, white ; stem solid, stout, 3-4 in. long, 

 lip to 1^ in. thick, equal, base downy, and sometimes ventri- 

 cosely bulbous, naked, slightly striate, white, fibrous outside. 



Agaricus (Tridioloma) Schiimacheri, Epicr., p. 45; Cke.> 

 Hdbk., p. 38; Cke., Illustr., pL 168. 



In back woods, &c. 



Stature of Tridioloma ])ersonatiim, colour resembling.- 

 Clitocybe nehularis. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma circumtectum. C. & M. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, white ; convex, dry, very 

 obtusely umbonate at first, or quite obtuse, rarely becoming; 

 slightly depressed, margin incurved, downy, wavy ; often 

 cracking a little when old, disc dingy pale tan or ochraceous, 

 greenish-olive towards the margin, at length altogether 

 pale tan ; gills slightly sinuate, adnexed, l|-2 lines broad, 

 scarcely crowded, persistently white ; stem about 1 in long,. 

 |— I in thick, usually more or less swollen near the base, but 

 always tapering more or less to a point at the extreme base^ 

 striate, whitish, solid ; spores subglobose, 4-5 fx diameter. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) circumtectus, Cooke & Massee ; Cke.^ 

 Hdbk., p. 382 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1182. 



On the ground under trees. 



A well-marked species, known by the pileus being dingy 

 olive at first then tan-colour, the change starting at the- 

 disc, downy margin of pileus, and pointed base of stem. 



Tricholoma arcuatum. Bull. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, soft, hygrophanous, 

 brownish- white, at length usually tan-colour ; at first 

 compact, then very soft, convex then plane, obtuse, even,, 

 glabrous, moist in rainy weather, blackish-umber or rufous- 

 brown, becoming pale and discoloured with age; gills 

 rounded behind, sinuate and with a decurrent tooth, arcuate, 

 at length plane, crowded, narrow, pure white; stem solid, 

 firm, Ij in long, i in. thick, incrassated below and more or 

 less bulbous, at first squamulosely fibrillose, then naked and 

 somewhat reticulated, pale brown, base blackish, spongy 

 Avithin, 



