180 REV. DAVID PAUL 
shire in pine woods. It is a beautiful plant with a sulphur 
yellow stem, and gills of the same colour, and a yellowish, 
reddish pileus, very easy to recognise at all times. Another 
that grows in Roxburghshire with equestris is portentosus, 
very distinct and handsome, but not generally common. 
Still another is resplendeus, wholly white, and of very striking 
appearance, the pileus often marked with hyaline streaks 
and spots. Then there are flavobrunneus and albobrunneus, 
both fairly common. One very handsome Tricholoma is 
rutilans, generally on stumps, the stem light yellow with 
purple fiocci, the gills golden, and the pileus covered with a 
thick, reddish down: a common fungus, but never to be passed 
over unadmired. Then you have imbricatus and vaceinus, 
both common at Roxburgh, and both large and fine, especially 
vaceinus. I need hardly mention ¢erreus, which at times is 
plentiful, and arrests the eye like so many of this group, 
but I want in connection with it to speak of another— 
virgatus—which has much the same appearance, and yet is 
a wholly different plant. The pileus of virgatus is perfectly 
smooth, and is streaked with fine black lines, that of terreus 
is quite floccose or villous, Both like to grow under beech, 
and virgatus is probably not uncommon, for I have fre- 
quently found both in the north and south of Scotland. 
Saponaceus, another fir-wood fungus, I used to find plentifully 
in one Roxburghshire wood, always the variety with the scaly 
stem. It has a remarkable scent something like that of soap, 
but not very strong. There is one small group of Tricholomata 
characterised by a very offensive smell, of which sulphureus 
is the best known, the others being bufonius, lascivus, and 
inamenus. Sulphwreus has, like equestris, stem and gills 
of a beautiful shade of bright yellow, and the pileus is 
nearly of the same colour, but a little darker ; unfortunately, 
the smell is dreadful. Bufonius I have never seen, but 
lascivus and inameznus I have occasionally found; they have 
the smell of swlphwreus without the beauty. But the smell 
is very welcome for purposes of identification. I hope some 
of you know gambosus, the St George’s mushroom which 
grows by road-sides in spring, a large, compact, solid fungus, 
with a whitish-tan pileus and very crowded whitish gills. 
It has a strong smell of new meal, and is delicious to eat; 
