THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 



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The stem is of the same color as the pileus, punctato-squamulose. The spores 

 are elliptical, 7-9x4-5^. 



This is a beautiful plant, growing in mixed woods among the leaves. The 

 stem is short and apparently the same color as the pileus. The latter is covered 

 with black squamules which give rise to the name of the species. I have succeeded 

 in finding the plants only in ( )ctober. The specimens in Figure 58 were found in 

 Poke Hollow, near Chillicothe. 



Figure 58. Tricholoma squarrulosum. Caps showing black squamules. 



Tricholoma maculatescens. Pk. 



Spotted Tricholoma. 



Maculatescens means growing spotted ; so called because when the specimen 

 is dried the cap becomes more or less spotted. 



The pileus is one and a half to three inches broad, compact, spongy, reddish- 

 brown, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, slightly viscid when wet, becoming 

 rivulose and brown spotted in drying, flesh whitish, margin inflexed, exceeding 

 the gills. 



The gills are slightly emarginate, rather narrow, cinereous. 



