TRICHOLOMA 215 



A. P. viscid, fibrillose, scaly or pubescent. 

 (a) Gills not changing colour. 



610. T. equestre (Linn.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 24, figs. 1-12. 



Equestre, belonging to the order of knights. 



P. 7-5-12-5 cm., pale yellowish, sulphur-olive, olivaceous, brick 

 rufescent, disc and innate squamules darker, becoming fuscous, com- 

 pactly fleshy, unequal, convex, then plane, very obtuse, flexuoso- 

 repand, viscid. St. 2-55 x 1-52-5 cm., sulphur-yellow, hard, squamu- 

 lose. Gills sulphur-yellow, or sulphur-olive, emarginate, or rounded, 

 scarcely adnexeu, broad, somewhat ventricose, crowded. Flesh 

 whitish, yellow under the cuticle of the p., thick. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 6 x 3/z. "Cystidia on edge of gill cylindrical-clavate, 30- 

 36 x 10-14^, filled with yellow juice" Rick. Taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



611. T. cdryphaeum Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 76. 



tcopv(f)aio<>, a leader. 



P. 512 cm., yellowish, disc darker, punctate with brown squamules, 

 fleshy, ccnvexo-campanulate, then plane, sometimes broadly umbo- 

 nate, somewhat viscid, soon dry. St. 57 x 1 cm., white, tinged with 

 yellow in the middle, apex white mealy, base obclavate, or fusiform and 

 somewhat rooting. Gills white with a yellow margin, often grey at the 

 base, sometimes connected by veins, emarginate, crowded, broad. 

 Flesh white, citron-yellow under the epidermis, thick. Spores white, 

 subglobose, 5-6 x 4-5ju,, 1-guttulate. Taste somewhat bitter. Beech 

 woods. Sept. Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



612. T. sejunctum (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 126. 



Sejunctum, separated. 



P. 7 -5-10 cm., light yellow, streaked with innate fuscous fibrils, con- 

 vex, then expanded, gibbous, viscid in wet weather; margin yellowish, 

 or white, villous, becoming torn. St. 6-12-5 x 1-5-2-5 cm., white, 

 tinged with yellow, ventricose, then elongated, apex delicately squamu- 

 lose. Gills shining white, sometimes tinged with yellow, emarginate, 

 broad, subdistant. Flesh white, yellowish under the cuticle of the p. 

 and in the St., fragile. Spores white, subglobose, 5-7 p. Smell of new 

 meal. Taste slightly bitter. Mixed woods, especially oak, and pine. 

 Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



613. T. portentosum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 24, upper figs. 



Portentosum, monstrous. 



P. 7-5-12-5 cm., fuliginous, livid, sometimes violaceous, streaked with 

 black, innate fibrils, fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, unequal, 

 repand, viscid. St. 7-5-15 x 2-5 cm., white, becoming tinged with 

 sulphur-yellow, or greenish glaucous, equal, sometimes attenuate- 



