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Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad ; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 6 to 12 lines 

 thick. 



Woods. Albany county. August. 



The species is remarkable for its varied colors and for the peculiar 

 hue assumed by the dried lamellae. 



Tricholoma imbricatum Fr. 



Imbricated Teicholoma 



(Hym. Europ.. p. 56. Syl. Fung., Vol. V, p. lOl.) 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex or nearly plane, obtuse, dry, 

 innately squamulose, fibrillose toward the margin, brown or red- 

 dish brown, the margin thin, at first slightly inflexed and pubescent, 

 then naked, flesh firm, thick, white; lamellae slightly emarginate, 

 almost adnate, rather close, white when young, becoming reddish 

 or spotted; stem solid, firm, nearly equal, fibrillose, white and 

 mealy or pulverulent at the top, elsewhere colored like the pileus ; 

 spores .00025 in. long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 10 lines 

 thick. 



Under or near coniferous trees. Greene and Essex counties. 

 September and October. 



This is an edible species. It has a farinaceous odor and taste 

 when fresh. 



TricJioloma vaccinum Pers. 



Vaccine Tricholoma 



(Hym. Europ., p. 56, Syl. Fung., Vol. V., p. 102.) 



Pileus fleshy, convex or*campanulate, becoming nearly plane, 

 umbonate, dry, floccosesquamose, reddish-brown, the margin invo- 

 lute, tomentose, flesh white; lamellae adnexed, subdistant, whitish, 

 then reddish or reddish-spotted ; stem equal, holloiv, covered with a 

 fibrillose bark, naked at the apex, whitish-rufescent ; spores sub- 

 globose, .00024 in. long. 



Pileus 1 to 3 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 6 lines 

 thick. 



Under or near coniferous trees. Greene and Essex counties. 

 September and October. 



This species resembles the preceding one from which it may be 

 distinguished by the tomentose margin of the pileus and the stuffed 

 or hollow stem. In the American plant the pileus is sometimes 

 streaked with innate fibrils and sometimes becomes longitudinally 

 rimose. It is not always umbonate. It has a fatinaceous taste. 

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