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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



were very plentiful in the same woods. They grow in groups so closely crowded 

 that the caps are often quite irregular. The darker and scaly disk and larger sized 

 spore will help you to distinguish it from T, columbetta. The very large specimens 

 are too coarse to be good. Found in clamp woods, among leaves, from August to 

 November. 



Tricholoma sejunctum. Sozv. 

 The Separating Tricholoma. Edible. 



Sejunctum means having separated. It refers to the separation of the gills 

 from the stem. Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, slightly viscid, 

 streaked with innate brown or blackish fibrils, whitish or yellow, sometimes green- 

 ish-yellow, flesh white and fragile. 



The gills are broad, subdistant, rounded behind or notched, white. 



The stem is solid, stout, often irregular, white. The spores are subglobose, 



Figure 60. Tricholoma sejunctum. One-half natural size. 



