THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 



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The gills are rounded behind and almost free, crowded, white. 



The stem is about two inches long, hollow, solid at the base, smooth, carti- 

 laginous, tough, rooting. The spores are 9-10x7-8^. 



It differs from T. album in having the odor of new meal strongly marked. 

 It is found in open woods during September and October. 



Tricholoma fumescens. Pk. 

 Smoky Tricholoma. Ediblk. 



Fumescens means growing smoky. 



Pileus convex or expanded, dry, clothed with a very minute appressed tomen- 

 tum, whitish. 



The gills are narrow, crowded, rounded behind, whitish or pale cream color, 

 changing to smoky blue or blackish where bruised. 



The stem is short, cylindrical, whitish. Spores are oblong-elliptical, 5-6x5/11. 

 Pileus is one inch broad. Stem one to one and a half inches high. Peck, 44th 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Figure 54. Tricholoma fumescens. 



