234 MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Trogia. 1'r. 



Trogia is so called in honor of the Swiss botanist, Trog. 



The pileus is nearly membranaceous, soft, quite tough, flaccid, dry, flexible, 

 fibrillose, reviving when moist. 



The gills are fold-like, venose, narrow, irregular, crisped. 



Trogia crispa. Fr. 



Crispa means crisp or curled. The pileus tough, cup-shaped, reflexed, lobed, 

 villous, whitish or reddish toward the attachment, often tan-colored. 



The gills are quite narrow, vein-like, irregular, more or less branched, blunt 

 on the edge, white or bluish-gray, quite crisped, edge not channeled. 



The caps are usually very much crowded and imbricated. It revives during 

 wet weather and is found throughout the year, generally on beech limbs in our 

 woods. 



