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MUSHROOMS, BDIBIM AND OTHERWISE 



Figure 45. Tricholoma grammopodium. Natural size. 



stem and crowded gills. The specimens in Figure 45 were found near Boston, and 

 were sent to me by Mrs. Blackford. The plants keep well and are easily dried. 

 They were found the first of June. They have an excellent flavor. 



Tricholoma pccdidum. Fr. 



Paedidum means nasty, stinking. 



The pileus is small, about one and a half inches broad, rather fleshy, tough ; 

 convex, then flattened, soon depressed around the conical umbo; fibrillose, becoming 

 smooth; smoky gray, somewhat streaked; moist; margin involute, naked. 



The gills are adnexed. crowded, narrow, white, then grayish, somewhat sinuate 

 with a slight decurrent tooth. 



The stem is short, slightly striate, dingy gray, thickened at the base. The 

 spores are elliptical or fusiform. 10-1 1x5 O/i. 



The specific name, "nasty" or "stinking." has really no application to the plant. 

 It is said to be very good when cooked. It is found in well manured gardens and 

 fields, or about manure piles. 



It differs from T. sordidum in having no trace of violet color. T. lixivium 

 differs in the free truncate gills. 



