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distant, more or less anastomosing, brittle, cinereons, often marked 

 with raised lines ; edge at length black. — Sow. t. 106. Bull. t. 

 520. Ann. N.H., no. 261. 



In woods. Sept. Xot common. 



Very different from Hygrophorus muTV/iaceus, Fr. Pilens 4^ in. across, at 

 first eampanulate, slightly umbonate, then expanded, thin, firm, but very 

 brittle, mouse-coloured, cracked and virgate, silky, not the least viscid, 

 flesh white ; taste rather acrid ; smell not nitrous. St^m 3 in. high, 1 in. 

 thick at the top, cracked and streaked, silky, with minute black scales, 

 solid but fibrous, not the least stuffed or hollow ; gills very broad, undulate, 

 distant, having a tendency to become forked and anastomosing, brittle, often 

 marked with raise! lines, cinereous, powdery, interstices slightly veined, 

 edge at length black. -J/. /. B. Spores '00019 K -00014 in.— W. G S. 



57. Agaricus (Tricholoma) tenreus. Sch<p.ff. " Grey Tricholoma." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, campannlate, then expanded, umbonate, 

 dry, clothed with innate, floccose, or scaly down ; stem stuffed, 

 nearly equal, adpresso-fibrillose, whitish ; gills adnexed, with a 

 decurrent tooth, crenulate, pale-grey. — Schcpff. t. 6-1. F7\ Epicr. 

 p. 3-4. Letell t. 663. Sow'.t. 76. Paul. 1. 116. Vent. t. 4:Dj f. 4, 5. 

 A. multiformis. Eng. El. Y.p. 18. 



In woods, especially of fir. 



Gregarioas, often in large rings, or solitary. Pileus 1-2| in. broad, conic 

 when young, with a delicate arachnoid veil, then obtuse, expanded, quite 

 plane, variously waved, sometimes minutely umbonate, thin, mouse-grey, 

 or very dark cinereous, clcthed with flat and matted down, with sometimes 

 a few depressed or raised squamules of the same colour, margin inflexed ; 

 flesh cinereous ; gills rather distant, broad, the margin wavy, more or less 

 rounded behind, and attached by a tooth, more or less cinereous, especially 

 when young, with a few indistinct connecting veins ; stem 1-3 in. high, 

 ^-| in. thick, stuffed, at length hollow, fibrillose sericeous, sometimes a little 

 pulverulent, white, the base occasionally sub-rufescent ; pileus and stem 

 very brittle. — M.J. B. Spores nearly spherical "0002 in. — \V. G. S. 



(PI. II., fig. 4, redvjced.) 



C. Rigida — granulate or squamulose. 



Sect. 1. Gills whitish. 



58. Agaxicus (Tricholoma) saponaceus. Fr. " Strong Scented 



Tricholoma." 



Strong scented, firm. Pileus rather compact, convex, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, dry, smooth; then rimoso-squamose or punctate ; 

 margin at first naked ; stem sohd, unequal ; gills uncinato-margi- 

 nate, distant, thin, quite entire, white then pallid, sometimes 

 greenish. — Fr.Lpticr.p.db. Bull. t. 602. Sow. t. 281. Batsch.t. 



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