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elliptical, 7-8 x 5/z, 1-guttulate. Smell of new meal. Pine woods. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



T. russula (Schaeff.) Fr. = Hygrophorus rassula (Schaeff.) Quel. 

 T.frumentaceum (Bull.) Fr. = Hygrophorus russula (Schaeff.) Quel. 

 B. P. never viscid; torn into scales, or fibrillose. 

 (a) Gills not changing colour. 



627. T. rutilans (Schaeff.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 18, no. 32. 



Rutilans, becoming reddish. 



P. 520 cm., yellow, densely covered with granular, purplish downy 

 scales, fleshy, campanulate, then convex and flattened, often umbo- 

 nate. St. 6-9 x 1-2-5 cm., light yellow, besprinkled with purple, 

 squamulose flocci, bulbous, then ventricose. Gills sulphur-yellow, 

 sinuato-adnate, crowded, broad; margin thickened, obtuse, floccose. 

 Flesh light yellow, golden when broken, soft, thick. Spores white, 

 globose, or elliptical, 5-8 x 4-7 /i. Cystidia "on edge of gill, clavate, 

 or clavate-capitate, rarely fusiform, 60-175 x 20-36/1," Kick. Taste 

 mild. Poisonous. Stumps of conifers. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



628. T. variegatum (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1117, t. 642. 



Variegatum, variegated. 



P. 4-6 cm., yellowish, covered with purple-reddish flocci, slightly 

 fleshy, fragile, convex, then flattened. St. 5-6 x -5 cm., yellowish, 

 equal, curved, sometimes bulbous, rarely sprinkled with purple red- 

 dish flocci, generally smooth. Gills light yellowish white, adnate, narrow, 

 crowded, thin. Flesh pallid, yellowish in the st. Spores white, sub- 

 globose, 7 x 6/i, with a large central gutta. On rotten wood, and pine 

 stumps. June Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



629. T. decorum (Fr.) Quel. (= Pkurotus decorus Fr. Hym. Eur., 



Clitocybe decora Fr. Icon. t. 60, upper figs., Tricholoma rutilans 



(Schaeff.) Fr. sec. Dumee). Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 10, 



as Pleurotus decorus Fr. Decorum, beautiful. 



P. 5-12 cm., yellow, covered with linear, bistre fibrils that become 



black with age, fleshy, brittle, convex, then expanded, or depressed, 



often excentric. St. 6-10 x 1-5-2 cm., concolorous, covered with fibrils 



that blacken with age, equal, slightly enlarged at the base, often twisted. 



Gills golden yellow, adnate, or sinuato-adnate, 5-10 mm. broad, 



crowded, often separating from the p. when old, edge uneven. Flesh 



pale yellow, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 4-5/tt, with a large 



central gutta. Taste bitter. Stumps of conifers. Sept. Oct. Un- , 



common, (v.v.) 



630. T. centurio Kalchbr. (= Tricholoma molybdinum (Bull.) Quel., 



Clitocybe ampla Pers. sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 4, fig. 2. 



Centurio, captain. 

 P. 7-5-12-5 era., fuscous, then livid, acorn-shaped, then campanulate, 



