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very mucli discoloured, brownish -violet at first, then rufes- 

 cent, gills darker. Smell acid. (Fries.) 



Var, major, Cke., Hdbk., p. 41 ; Cke., Illiistr., pi. 133. 



Larger and more robust than the typical form. Pileus 

 4-5 in. across ; stem 4-6 in. high, 1 in. thick, spores 

 5 X 2-5 //. 



Among dead leaves. 



The figure by Cooke looks very much more like a very 

 large T. personatum ; the gills are pallid, without a trace of 

 lilac. 



Tricholoma cinerascens. Bull. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, smooth, even, white becoming greyish, margin thin, 

 naked, sliglitly striate ; gills rounded behind, not distinctlj^ 

 sinuate, rather close, white then reddish-grey, finally dingy 

 yellow, easily separating from the pileus; stem stufi'ed, 

 fibrous, elastic, subequal, smooth ; spores elliptical. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) cinerascens, Bull., Champ., t. 48, f. 2 ; 

 €ke., Hdbk., p. 41 ; Cke., Illustr., t. 170. 



In woods. 



Caespitose; pileus 2-3 in. across, convex, of a dirty pale 

 ochre, slightly streaked with watery lines, firm but not 

 brittle, clothed with very obscure matted down ; flesh thin, 

 white. Stem curved, slightly streaked, tinged like the 

 pileus, paler above and slightly pulverulent, solid, stringy. 

 Oills moderately distant, at fiist attenuated behind, at 

 length rounded and easily separating, as in Paxillus involutuSy 

 white or very slightly ochraceons, stained like the pileus 

 when old and bruised, very slightly anastomosing behind. 

 Spores certainly not cinereous. Smell rather disagreeable, 

 pungent ; the stem, however, when broken, smells like new 

 meal. (B. & Br.) 



Tricholoma panaeolum. Fr. 

 Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh not thick, and like tliat of 

 the stem, spongy and absorbing moisture, but the pileus is 

 not by any means hygrophanous, white when dry, convex 

 then flattened or often depressed, obtuse, usually wavy and 

 often excentric, even, sooty-grey, covered with an almost 

 innate grey bloom ; gills emarginate or rounded behind, at 



