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Tricholoma transmutans. Pk. 

 The Changing Tricholoma. Edible. 



Transmutans means changing, from changes of color in both stem and gills in 

 different stages of the plant. This species has a cap two to four inches broad, 

 viscid or sticky when moist. It is at first tawny-brown, especially with advancing 

 age. The flesh is white and has a decided farinaceous odor and taste. 



The gills are crowded, rather narrow, sometimes branched, becoming reddish- 

 spotted with age. 



The stem is equal or slightly tapering upward ; bare, or slightly silky-fibrillose ; 

 stuffed or hollow; whitish, often marked with reddish stains or becoming reddish- 

 brown toward the base, white within. Spores subglobose, 5/x. 



The species grows in woods and open places, also in clover pastures, either 

 singly or in tufts. I have seen large tufts of them, and in that case the caps are 

 more or less irregular on account of their crowded condition. I found it frequently 

 about Salem, and this fall, 1905, I found it quite plentiful in a clover pasture near 

 Chillicothe. Found in wet weather from August to September. 



Tricholoma equestre. Linn. 

 The Knightly Tricholoma. Edible. 



Equestre means belonging to a horseman ; so called from its distinguished 

 appearance in the woods. 



The pileus is three to five inches broad, fleshy, compact, convex, expanded, 

 obtuse, viscid, scaly, margin incurved at first, pale yellowish, with sometimes a 

 slight tinge of green in both cap and gills. Flesh white or tinged with yellow. 



The gills are free, crowded, rounded behind, yellow. 



The stem is stout, solid, pale yellow or white, white within. The spores are 



7-8*5/*. 



It differs from T. coryphaeum in having gills entirely yellow, while the edges 

 only of the latter are yellow. It differs from T. sejunctum in the latter having 

 pure white gills and a more slender stem. 



It is found but occasionally here, and then 'only a specimen or two. It is 

 an attractive plant and no one would pass it in the woods without admiring it. 

 Found from August to October. 



