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27. Tricholoma, Fries. 



Pileus regular, fleshy ; gills broad, sinuate behind, margin 

 entire, white, grey, or yellowish, often becoming spotted 

 with rust-coloured stains ; stem stout, central, fibrous 

 throughout ; spores white. 



Tricholoma, Fries, Syst. Myc, i., p. 36 (as a subgenus of 

 Agaricus) . 



All the species grow on the ground, and most are fleshy 

 and robust. The sinuate gills mark the genus among white- 

 spored forms. 



100. Tricholoma rutilans, Schaeffer, tab. 219; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 344. 



Pileus ovato-globose, obtuse, with the margin incurved, and 

 entirely covered with a dense unbroken coating of dark-purple 

 or reddish-brown velvety nap, when young; when older be- 

 coming campanulate and often umbonate, purple, all one 

 colour ; at maturity expanded, often umbonate, the cuticle 

 broken up into small purple innate fascicles of down on a 

 yellow ground ; always dry, 6-14 cm. diameter ; flesh thick, 

 soft, deep-yellow from the earliest stage, becoming golden- 

 yellow when broken ; gills broadly adnexed, yellow from the 

 first, crowded, edge thickened, floccose, and deeper yellow 

 than the rest of the gill; spores subglobose, 5-6 /x diameter; 

 stem 5-9 cm. long, up to 2 cm. thick, fleshy, imperfectly hollow, 

 soft, rather bulbous when short, ventricose when elongated, 

 yellow, variegated, especially upwards, with purplish floccose 

 squamules. 



On the ground. New Zealand. Australia, Europe, 

 United States. 



Inodorous ; size very variable. Eeadily distinguished by 

 the yellow flesh and gills. 



101. Tricholoma terreum, Schaeffer, tab. 64; Sacc, Svll. v., 

 no. 373. 



Pileus campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, entirely 

 covered with innate downy squamules, dark bluish -grey, 

 sometimes with a tinge of brown, 5-8 cm. across; flesh soft, 

 thick at the disc, elsewhere thin, soft ; gills adnexed and cut 

 out behind or sinuate, with a minute decurrent tooth, 4 mm. 

 or more broad, greyish-white, margin crenulate or slightly 

 irregular; spores subglobose, 5-6 mm. diameter; stem 2-5- 

 7 cm. high, 1-1-5 cm. thick, almost equal, adpressedly fibril- 

 lose, whitish, stuffed. 



In woods, on the ground. New Zealand. Europe. 



Solitary or caespitose, almost without smell, sometimes 

 large and with the pileus wavy and fibrillosely squamulose, 



