178 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



gills much cut out behind and free, 8 lines broad, crowded, 

 sulphur-yellow; stem 11-2^^ in. long, |-f in. thick, base 

 more or less swollen, whitish, or yellow like the gills, solid; 

 spores elliptical, 7-8 x 5 /x. 



Acjaricus equestris, Linn., Suec, no. 1219; Fries, Elench.,i. 

 p. 6 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 24 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 72. 



In fir woods. 



Taste and smell none. Sometimes very large specimens 

 occur. Differs from T. sejunctum in the absence of black 

 streaks on the pileus, and the yellow gills. 



Tricholoma sejunctum. Sow. 



Smell strong, like new meal ; taste bitter. Pileus about 

 3-4 in. across, flesh thin, fragile, white; convex then ex- 

 panded, gibbous, the umbo at length disappearing, viscid in 

 moist weather, bright yellow, virgate or streaked with 

 brownish, minute fibrils; gills emarginate, broad, rather 

 distant, pure white ; stem solid, stout, ventricose, then 

 elongated up to 4-5 in., up to 1 in. thick, even, glabrous, 

 pure white, apex slightly squamulose ; spores subgiobose, 

 about 6 /x diameter. 



Agariciis sejunctus, Sowerby, t. 126 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 25 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 53? 



In pine and other woods. 



Stout, showy, smell resembling rancid meal. Stem fleshy, 

 solid, ventricose, then elongated, about 3 in. long, usually 

 1 in. thick, even, glabrous, pure white, apex slightly 

 squamulose, pileus fleshy at the disc, thin towards the 

 margin, convex then expanded, gibbous at first, but the 

 umbo disappearing, about 3 in. across, viscid in damp 

 weather, yellow, viigate or streaked with blackish-brown 

 innate fibrils. Flesh thin in proportion, white or marbled 

 with grey, gills emarginate, rounded when young, broad, 

 rathei- distant, colour not changing. (Fries.) 



In one of the figures of this species in Fries, Icon., pi. 23, 

 the pileus is 5 in. across; stem 6 in. long, and Ij in. at the 

 thickest ]>art. Other figures on the .same plate are smaller. 

 Cooke's figure is not at all characteristic, and is an extreme 

 form, if this species at all. 



Tricholoma portentosum. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh thin, white or with a faint 



