THE WHITB-SP'ORED AGARICS 81 



Tncholoma flavobrunneum. Fr, 

 Thk Yeixow-Brown Tricholoma. Edible. 



Flavobrunneum is from flavus, yellow ; brunneus, brown ; so called from the 

 brown caps and yellow flesh. 



The pileus is three to four or more inches broad, fleshy, conical, then convex, 

 expanded, subumbonate, viscid, brownish-bay, scaly-streaked, flesh yellow, then 

 tinged with red. 



The gills are pale yellow, emarginate, slightly decurrent, somewhat crowded, 

 and often tinged with red. 



The stem is three to four inches long, hollow, slightly ventricose, brownish, 

 flesh yellow, at first viscid, sometimes reddish-brown. The spores are 6-7x4-5. 

 Found in mixed woods among leaves. 



Tricholoma Schumacheri. Br. 



Schumacheri in honor of C. F. Schumacher, author of "Tlantarum Saellan- 

 diae." The pileus is from two to three inches broad, spongy, convex, then plane, 

 obtuse, even, livid gray, moist, vi\^v beyond gills incurved.' 



The gills are narrow, close, pure white, slightly emarginate. 



The stem is three to four inches long, solid, fibrillosely-striate, white and 

 fleshy. 



This seems to be a domestic plant, found in green-houses. 



Tricholoma grande* Pk. 

 Thk Large Tricholoma. Edible. 



Grande, large, showy. This was quite abundant in Haines' Hollow and on 

 Ralston's Run during the wet weather of the fall of 1905. It seems to be very 

 like T. columbetta and is found in the same localities. 



The pileus is thick, firm, hemispherical, becoming convex, often irregular, 

 dry. scaly, somewhat silky-fibrillose toward the margin, white, the margin at first 

 involute. Flesh grayish-white, taste farinaceous. 



The gills are close, rounded behind, adnexed, white. 



The stem is stout, solid, fibrillose, at first tapering upward, then equal or but 

 slightly thickened at the base, pure white. The spores are elliptical, o-iixfyt. 



The pileus is four to five inches broad, the stem two to four inches long, and 

 an inch to an inch and a half thick. Peck, 44th Rep. 



This is a very la^pe and showy plant, growing amonu leaves after heavv 

 rains. Roth this and T. columbetta, as well as a white variety of T. personatum, 



