To MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWJSB 



few fibrils, usually thickened at the base. The flesh is soft and white. There is 

 no report, so far as 1 know, regarding its edibility, and I have no doubt as to this, 

 but would advise caution. 



Tricholoma lascivwn. Pr. 



The Tarry Tricholoma. 



Lascivum, playful, wanton; so called because of its many affinities, none of 

 winch are very close. The pileus is fleshy, convex, then expanded, slightly obtuse, 

 somewhat depressed, silky at first, then smooth; even. The gills are notched, 

 adnexed, crowded, white; the stem is solid, equal, rigid, rooting, white, tomentose 

 at the base. Found in the woods. Haynes" Hollow near Chillicothe. September 

 and October. 



Tricholoma Russula. ScJucff. 

 Tin-: Reddish Tricholoma. Edible. 



Russula is so named because of its likeness in color to some species of the 

 genus Russula. 



The pileus is three to four inches broad, fleshy, convex, then depressed, viscid. 

 even or dotted with granular scales, red or flesh color, the margin somewhat paler, 

 involute and minutely downy in the young plant. 



The gills are rounded or slightly decurrent, rather distant, white, often 

 becoming red-sj totted with age. 



The stem is two to three inches long, solid, firm, whitish rosy-red. nearly equal, 

 scaly at the apex. The spores are elliptical, iox-5/x. 



This plant is quite variable in many of its peculiar characteristics, yet it usually 

 lias enough to readily distinguish it. The cap may lie flesh-color and the stem 

 rosy-red, the cap may be red and the stem white or whitish with stains of red. 

 During wet weather the caps of all are viscid ; when dry. all may be cracked more 

 or less. The stems may not be scaly at the apex, often rosy when young. They 

 are found in the woods solitary, in groups, or frequently in dense clusters. The 

 specimens in Figure 51 were found in Michigan and photographed by Dr. Fischer. 



T found this plant in Poke Hollow. The gills were quite decurrent. 



Tricholoma accrhum. Hull. 

 The Bitter Tricholoma. 



Accrhum means bitter to the taste. 



The pileus is three to four inches broad, convex to expanded, obtuse, smooth, 

 more or less spotted, margin thin, at first involute, rugose, sulcate, viscid, whitish, 

 often tinged rufous, or yellow, quite bitter to the taste. 



