220 TRICHOLOMA 



strongly umbonate, at length expanded, and somewhat repand, cuticle 

 breaking up into adpressed fibrils ; margin splitting. St. 7-10 x 5 cm., 

 white, ventricose, obsolet ely fibrillose. Gills pallid, deeply emarginate, 

 almost free, 6-8 mm. wide, scarcely crowded. Flesh white, thick. 

 Spores white, globose, minute. Taste mild. Pine woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Rare. 



631. T. luridum (Schaeff.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 31, 



figs. 48. Luridum, lurid. 



P. 10 cm., lurid, becoming yellow cinereous, sometimes light yellow, 

 disc darker, convex, then plane, obtuse, somewhat repand, irregularly 

 shaped, dry, the cuticle breaking up into free, brown fibrils ; margin 

 fimbriate. St. 5-7-5 x 1-2-5 cm., whitish or yellowish, unequal, fibril- 

 lose. Gills whitish, or glaucous, then greyish, emarginate, broad, very 

 crowded. Flesh whitish, soft, fibrous. Spores white, "elliptical, 12 x 7- 

 8/A, 1-guttulate" Bat. Smell of new meal. Taste mild. Fir woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



632. T. guttatum (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Tricholoma amarum (A. & S.) 



Quel., Tricholoma gentianeum Quel.) Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. 



t. 31, figs. 9-12. Guttatum, spotted. 



P. 7-5-12 cm., cinnamon, or pale yellowish, disc darker, fleshy, con- 

 vex, then flattened, broken up into granular, or fioccose squamules ; 

 margin involute at first, white fioccose, remotely sulcate. St. 5-8 

 x 1-5 cm., white, subequal, mealy. Gills snow-white, emarginate, de- 

 current in the form of lines, very crowded. Flesh white. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 4-6 x 3/n. Smell and taste bitter, somewhat acrid. Woods. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



633. T. truncatum (Schaeff.) Quel. (= Hebeloma truncatum (Schaeff.) 



Fr.) Boud. Icon. t. 26. Truncatum, maimed. 



P. 5-10 cm., somewhat rufous, or yellowish tawny, convex, then de- 

 pressed, undulato-repand, very irregular, smooth, then minutely floe- 

 cose; margin whitish, or flesh colour, lobed, incurved, pruinose. St. 

 4-9cm. x S-\Om.m., white, equal, firm, pruinoselytomentose. Gillscmm 

 colour, then flesh colour, emarginate with a tooth, narrow, often crisped, 

 branched and anastomosing. Flesh white, firm. Spores yellowish in the 

 mass, uncoloured under the microscope, elliptical, 5-8 x 3-4/it. Smell 

 weak. Taste somewhat bitter. Edible. Fir, and deciduous woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



634. T. psammopum Kalchbr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 3, fig. 2. 







^, sand; TTOU?, foot. 

 P. 3-5 cm., tawny brown, fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, 

 or slightly umbonate, minutely fibrillosely squamulose, or smooth. St. 

 5-7 x 1-5 cm., concolorous, equal, or ventricose, attenuated at the base, 



