196 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



About the size of the typical form ; pileiis pale pi^ey, 

 .covered with small black scales ; gills emarginate, whitish. 

 On the oround. 



III. EIGIDA. 



* GUIs ichite or imllid, not sjyotted. 



Tricholoma macrorhizum. Lasch. 



Smell strong. Pileus 5-8 in. across, flesh thick, firm, 

 white, becoming tinged with yellow when broken ; convex 

 then expanded and often more or less depressed at the disc, 

 glabrous and even at first, tben becoming cracked in an 

 •areolate manner, ochraceous, darker when old; gills deeply 

 emarginate, almost free, hardly crowded, narrowed towards 

 the front, 4-9 lines broad, pallid ; stem solid, stout, ventri- 

 ■cose, 2-3 in. long, 2 in. thick, very minutely granulated, 

 whitish, ochraceous downwards, and continued downwards 

 as a stout, elongated, rooting base ; spores irregularly 

 globose, 5-6 /x diameter. 



Agaricus macrorhizus, Lasch, in Linnea, no. 240; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 32. 



Among grass under oaks, &c. 



Smell strong, resembling that of Triclioloma sulfureum. 

 (Schulzer.) 



The figure in Cooke's Illustrations, pi. 278, cannot, I 

 think, possibly be the present species, although it is called 

 .so; the gills are 1 line broad, somewhat decurrent, not at all 

 sinuate or emarginate ; what it does in reality represent, I 

 do not know. 



Tricholoma saponaceum. Fr. 

 Strong-scented, firm. Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh thick, 

 reddish when brol:en or sometimes when intact ; convex 

 then expanded, obtuse, often irregular, dry, glabrous, at 

 length cracked into squamules or punctate, livid-brown, 

 often with a tinge of olive ; margin naked at first ; gills 

 uncinat* ly emarginate, 2 lines broad, thin, distant, quite 

 -•■entire, white then pallid with a tinge of green ; stem 2—4 in. 

 long, about ^ in. thick, whitish, glabrous, fibrillose, or 



