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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Figure 43. Tricholoma equestre. 



Tricholoma sordidnm. Fr. 



Sordidum means dingy, dirty. 

 The pileus is two to three inches broad, rather tough, fleshy, convex, bell-shaped, 

 then depressed, subumbonate, smooth, hygrophanous, margin slightly striate, 

 brownish lilac, then dusky. 



The gills are rounded, rather crowded, dingy violet then dusky, notched with 

 a decurrent tooth. 



The stem is colored like the pileus. fibrillose striate, usually slightly curved. 

 stuffed, short, often thickened at the base. 



The spores are 7-8x3-4, minutely rugulose. 



This species differs from T. nudum in being smaller, tougher, and often 

 hygrophanous. 



