216 TRICHOLOMA 



rooted at the villous base, fibrillosely striate. Gills white, becoming 

 straw colour, or glaucous, rounded, almost free, broad, distant. Flesh 

 white, often tinged with yellow or greenish, very thin at the margin of the 

 p., fragile. Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/n, 1-guttulate. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Pine, and fir woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



614. T. fucatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 24, lower figs. Fucatum, painted. 

 P. 5-10 cm., lurid yellow, or cinereous light yellow, variegated with 



bistre, tiger-like spots, disc darker, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, often 

 irregular, viscid, soon dry. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 8-12 mm., straw colour, 

 streaked with fibrils that become blackish, apex white, pruinose, fragile, 

 subequal. Gills whitish, deeply emarginate, 6-10 mm. broad, some- 

 what crowded, fragile. Flesh yellowish, thin, fragile. Spores white, 

 "subglobose, 5-6 x 5/u," Rick. Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common. 



615. T. quinquepartitum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 25. 



Quinque, five; partitum, divided. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., pallid light yellow, margin paler, fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, umbonate, repand, viscid, fragile. St. 6-10 cm. x 12- 

 15 mm., white, or whitish, equal, or attenuated upwards, striate. Gills 

 white, emarginate, 12 mm. broad, not crowded. Flesh white, fragile, 

 thin at the margin. Spores "5-6 x 3-4/u," Sacc. Taste mild. Pine 

 woods. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



616. T. resplendens Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 29, upper figs. 



Resplendens, shining brightly. 



Entirely shining white, becoming yellowish externally and internally. 

 P. 5-10 cm., silvery shining when dry, often with hyaline spots, disc 

 becoming yellow, fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, viscid ; margin 

 straight, thin. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 12-15 mm., equal, or subbulbous, 

 sometimes curved, apex slightly flocculose. Gills emarginate, some- 

 what crowded, 6-8 mm. broad, equally attenuated in front. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 8 x 4/i. "Cystidia on edge of gill basidia-like, 30- 

 36 x 8-9/z" Rick. Smell pleasant, taste mild. Beech, and hazel 

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



617. T. spermaticum (Paul.) Fr. (= Tricholoma columbetta Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Gillet, Hym. t. 62. (nreppa, semen. 



Entirely white. P. 4-9 cm., somewhat fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 obtuse, repand, viscid, shining when dry, and often becoming yellow- 

 ish; margin involute. St. 5-9 x 1-5-2 cm., twisted. Gills emarginate, 

 subdistant, eroded. Spores white, elliptical, 6-8 x 5-6/u, verrucose. 

 Smell strong, taste unpleasant. Oak, and fir woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



