TRICHOLOMA 221 



granularly punctate from, the breaking up of the epidermis, apex white. 

 Gills straw, or flesh colour, emarginate, adnate by a tooth, ventricose, 

 subdistant, 4 mm. broad. Flesh white, or whitish, firm. Spores white, 

 subglobose, 4-5 x 3-4/>i, 1-guttulate. Taste mild, then slightly bitter. 

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



635. T. amarum (A. & S.) Quel. (= Clitocybe amara Fr., Tricholoma 

 guttatum Schaeff., and Tricholoma gentianeum Quel. sec. Quel.) 



Amarum, bitter. 



P. 5-8 cm., rufescent, or becoming fuscous, then becoming pale whitish, 

 fleshy, pliant, convex, then flattened, obtuse, often unequal, and 

 Tepaud,fibrittosely-silky, becoming smooth and rivulose; margin paler, 

 or whitish, thin, involute at first, tomentose. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 12 mm., 

 white, equal, attenuated at the white floccose base, tough, elastic, 

 firm, tomentose, often striate. Gills white, adnato-decurrent, or 

 sinuate, crowded, thin, 4 mm. broad. Flesh white, compact. Spores 

 white, subglobose, 6 x 5/u., 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant. Taste very 

 bitter. Woody places, and hedgerows. Sept. Nov. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



636. T. opipamm (Fr.) Quel. (= Clitocybe opipara Fr.) FT. Icon. 



t. 49, upper figs., as Clitocybe opipara Fr. var. major Fr. 



Opiparum, splendid. 



P. 5-10 cm., yellowish flesh colour, pale yellow, or rosy flesh colour, 

 very fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, delicately flocculose at first, 

 then very smooth, shining. St. 4-7 x 1-2 cm., white, often becoming dis- 

 coloured, firm, equal, or slightly attenuated at the base, smooth. Gills 

 white, adnate, or adnato-decurrent, equally attenuated behind, 

 crowded, 6-8 mm. broad, often connected by veins. Flesh white, com- 

 pact. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4/u,, 1-guttulate. Smell and 

 taste very pleasant. Edible. Mossy places under trees. Oct. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



637. T. columbetta Fr. (= Eypophyllum spermaticum Paul. sec. Quel.) 



Fr. Icon. t. 29, lower figs. Columba, a pigeon. 



Entirely shining white, occasionally spotted with red or blue. P. 

 5-10 cm., disc sometimes greyish, fleshy, convex, then flattened, ob- 

 tuse, flexuose, dry, at first smooth, then silky-fibrillose, becoming even, 

 or squamulose; margin incurved, tomentose. St. 7-510 x 2-5 cm., 

 equal, or unequal, sometimes attenuated at the base, often fibrillosely 

 striate and tinged with bluish green towards the base. Gills somewhat 

 emarginate, almost free, 4-6 mm. broad, often subserrulate. Flesh 

 white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/x, 1-guttulate. Smell 

 and taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



