TEICHOLOMA. 199 



Smell strong, unpleasant. Tough ; remarkable for the 

 horny, separable cuticle. Stem sometimes pale. 



Tricholoma atrocinereum. Pers. 



Pileus 1 J-2 in. across, flesh rather thick, dark and hyaline 

 when moist, hygrophanous ; convex then plane, glabrous, 

 dry, opaque, grey, the prominent disc darker, at first even 

 and entire, at length cracked and incised, margin upturned, 

 but not becoming broken up into squamules ; gills Yariable, 

 sometimes free, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, or 

 arcuately adnexed, more or less ventricose, thin, crowded, 

 hyaline white; stem 2-3 in. long, 4 lines thick, equal, 

 cylindrical ; striate from adpressed, longitudinal fibres, apex 

 naked, glabrous, whitish, stufied, 



Agariciis atrocinerms, Peis., Syn., p. 348; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 33 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 52a. 



Among grass, &c. 



Allied to a form of T. ciineifollum, but distinguished by 

 the regular pileus not becoming broken up into scales, form 

 of the gills, and naked apex of stem. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma cuneifolium. Fr. 



Smell strong, like meal. Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh 

 thin ; convex then plane, dry, glabrous, soon broken up into 

 squamules, brown, margin often upturned and split ; gills 

 broad and obliquely truncate, narrowed behind and adnexed, 

 with a decurrent tooth, thin, crowded, white ; stem up to 

 1 in. long, 1—1^ line thick, hollow, narrowed at the base, 

 pallid, apex with white meal; spores subgiobose, 3*5 /a 

 diameter. 



Agaricus cimeifoUus, Fries, Obs., ii. p. 99 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 33; Cke., Illustr., pi. 52b. 



Among grass in sunny places, also in woods. 



Readily distinguished by the small size, form of gills and 

 strong smell of meal. 



Var. cinereo-rimosus^ Batsch; Cke., Hdbk., p. 34; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 261. 



Pileus up to 2 in. across, pale grey with a pink tinge, 

 soon becoming concentrically cracked, interstices white ; 

 gills broad, rather distant. 



Among grass. 



