28 AGARICINI. 



36,/. 203 a. ^'. B. and Br. ^nn. iV^./Z., 18G6,?io. 1106. A.argy- 

 raceus. Eng. Fl. (in part.) 



In woods. Sept. 



Stem 2-3 in. long, ^in. or more thick, unequal or curved, base attenuated, 

 rooting. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, whitish, cinereous, greenish or blackish, mar- 

 gin thin, at first inflexed. Spores '0002 X -00015 in.— W. Q. S. 



59. Agaricus (Tricholoma) cairtilagineus. Bull. " Cartilaginous 



Tricholoma." 



Cartilaginous, elastic, rather fragile; pileus fleshy, convex, 

 bullate, gibbous, undulated, smooth ; cuticle rimulose, finely- 

 dotted with black ; stem stuffed, equal, stout, line ato- striate, 

 somewhat mealy ; gills slightly emarginate, adnexed, crowded, pal- 

 lid. — Bull. t. 589,/. 2. Fr. Ejncr.p. 37. Sm. Journ. Bot. iii.j9.28. 



In grassy spots. 



Smell like that of new flour. Pileus 2-3 in. or more broad, stem short and 

 firm, but fragile, 1-2 in. long. 



60. Agazicus (Tricholoma) cuneifolius. Fr. " Wedge-gill 



Tricholoma." 



Very brittle ; pileus rather fleshy, convex, then plane, dry, 

 smooth, but soon cracked ; stem, hollow, attenuated downwards, 

 white, pruinose above ; gills thin, crowded, white, broad in front, 

 obliquely truncate, attenuated behind, with a decurrent tooth. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 37. Eng. Fl. v. p. 44. Bull. t. 580,/ A.B. Batsch. 

 f. 206. 



In pastures. Not uncommon. 



Pileus about 1 in. broad, brownish or subochraceous, subcarnose, at first 

 conic, obtuse, afterwards expanded, with a strong umbo, much waved and 

 split at the margin, which is at first involute, and minutely tomentose, the 

 surface rimose ; gills distant, broad in front, venti-icose, acutely arcuato- 

 adnate, thick, connected and traversed by veins, white, with a slight reddish 

 cinereous tinge ; stem 1-1^ in, high, 2-4 lines thick, nearly equal, stufi'ed, at 

 length hollow, pruinose above, with sometimes a few superficial squamules 

 towards the base, smell like new meal. — M.J.B. Spores nearly spherical 

 •OOOlSin.— IF. (?.',§. 



Sect. 2. Gills rufescent or cinereous. 



61. Agaricus (Tricholoma) colossus. Fr. " Colossal Tricholoma." 



Large, very hard, pileus compact, very thick, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, smooth, at length diffracto-squamulose, margin at first 

 involute, at length unrolled and flexuous, stem quite solid, at first 

 tuberous, apex constricted, smooth, white, below and within 



