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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Tricholoma cartilagineum. Bull. 



The Cartilac.ixois Tricholoma. Kmiu.k. 



Figure 57. Tricholoma cartilaginea. Two-thirds natural size. 



Cartilagineum 

 means gristly or 

 cartilaginous. 



The pileus is 

 two to three 

 inches broad, 

 cartilaginous, 

 elastic, fleshy, 

 convex, soon ex- 

 panded, wavy, 

 as seen in Figure 

 ^y. margin in- 

 curved, smooth, 

 inclined to be 

 blackish at first, 

 then broken up 

 into small black- 

 spots. 



The gills are 

 slightly notched, 

 adnexed, some- 

 what crowded, 

 grayish. 



The stem is 

 one to two inch- 

 es long, rather 

 Taste and odor 



firm, stuffed, equal, smooth, white, often striate and mealy 

 pleasant. 



A number of my friends ate it because of its inviting taste and odor. It grew 

 in quantities among the clover in our city park (hiring the wet weather of the last 

 of May and the first of Tune. 



Tricholoma squarrulosum. Bres, 



Squarrulosum means full of scales. 



The pileus is two to three inches broad, convex, then expanded, nmhonate. 

 dry; fuscous then lurid tan. center black, with black squamules; edge fibrillose, 

 exceeding gills. 



The gills are broad, crowded, whitish-gray, reddish when bruised. 



