THE WH1TE-SP0RED AGARICS 



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Tricholoma lixivium. Fr. 



Lixivium means made into lye ; hence, of the color of ashes and water. 



The pileus is two to three inches broad ; flesh thin ; convex then plane ; 

 umbonate, never depressed ; even ; smooth ; grayish-brown when moist, then umber ; 

 margin membranaceous, at length slightly striate, sometimes wavy. 



The gills are rounded behind and adnexed, free, soft, distant, often crisped, gray. 



The stem is about two inches long, fibrous, hollow, or stuffed, equal, at first 

 covered with a white down, fragile, gray. 



The spores are elliptical, 7x4-5^. 



The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it. 

 They are a late grower and are found under pine trees in November. 



Figure 46. Tricholoma sulphureum. 



Tricholoma sulphureum. Bull. 

 Sulphury Tricholoma. Poisonous. 



Sulphureum, sulphur; so called from the general color of the plant. 

 The pileus is one to three inches broad, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 plane, slightly umbonate, sometimes depressed, or flexuous and irregular, mar- 



