222 TRICHOLOMA 



638. T. scalpturatum Fr. (= Tricholoma argyraceum (Bull.) Quel.) 



Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 151. Scalpturatum, engraved. 



P. 5-7*5 cm., whitish, or greyish, becoming fuscous with the adpressed 

 scattered, floccose, umber, or rufescent scales, fleshy, conical, then con- 

 vex and flattened, often umbonate, floccose when young; margin 

 fibrillosely tomentose. St. 3-7 cm. x 8-12 mm., whitish, equal, either 

 thickened, or attenuated at the base, firm, adpressedly fibrillose. Gills 

 white, or greyish white, becoming yellow, or spotted with yellow, emar- 

 ginate, almost free, crowded, ventricose. Flesh whitish, becoming cine- 

 reous, thin, slightly firm. Spores white, elliptical, 5-7 x 3-4/x, 1 

 2-guttulate. Fir woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



(b) Gills rufescent, or becoming cinereous, edge often 

 spotted red, or black. 



639. T. imbricatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 30. 



Imbricatum, covered with tiles. 



P. 7-5-10 cm., rufous umber, torn into squamules except at the disc, 

 fleshy, broadly convex, then flattened, and obtuse, very dry; margin thin, 

 at first inflexed, pubescent, then naked. St. 4-5 x 2-5 cm., brownish, 

 ventricose, base either conico-bulbous, or attenuated, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, apex white, mealy. Flesh white, often becoming discoloured, 

 firm, compact, thick. Spores white, subglobose, 4-5 x 3-5/i, with a 

 large central gutta. Taste pleasant. Edible. Coniferous woods. Sept. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



640. T. vaccinum (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 80, t. 60. 



Vaccinum, cow-like. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., rufous, torn up into floccose, squarrose, or when smaller, 

 adpressed scales, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, dry; 

 margin involute, very woolly, tomentose for a short distance on the p. 

 over the base of the gills. St. 7-5-10 cm. x 8-16 mm., brownish, equal, 

 thickened, or attenuated at the base, fibrillose, cortinote. Gills whitish, 

 then spotted rufous, and at length rufescent, slightly sinuate, almost 

 adnate, subdistant, 6-12 mm. broad. Flesh white, then reddish, firm, 

 thick. Spores white, subglobose, 6-8 x 6-7 /A. Taste somewhat acrid. 

 Coniferous woods. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



T. immundum Berk. = Collybia fumosa (Pers.) Quel. 



641. T. inodermeum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1120, t. 945. 



t?, fibre; Sepyu.a, skin. 



P. 25 cm., fuscous becoming reddish, becoming torn up into fibrils, 

 and variegated with radiating scales, slightly fleshy, conico-campanulate, 

 acute, then rather convex and subumbonate. St. 7-8 cm. x 3-5 mm., 

 whitish, becoming rufescent, firm, equal, scarcely fibrillose, apex white 

 mealy. Gills white, becoming spotted red when touched, free, or slightly 



