TRICHOLOMA 223 



adnexed, very broad, strongly ventricose, almost semicircular, distant. 

 Flesh white, slightly reddening, thin, fibrous in the stem. Spores white, 

 elliptical, obtuse at both ends, more rarely with a basal apiculus, 

 7-9 x 4-5//,,3-4-guttulate. Coniferous woods. Aug. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



642. T. unguentatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 31, upper figs. 



Unguentatum, anointed. 



P. 5-10 cm., cinereous, or greyish brown, slightly fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then expanded, umbonate, covered withfioccose, viscid squamules', 

 margin at first inflexed, then spreading, smooth. St. 7-10 x 1-2-5 cm., 

 grey, or white, equal, firm, laxly fibrillose. Gills dirty white, emarginate, 

 crowded, very broad. Flesh white, firm. Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 



643. T. gausapatum Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 35, figs. 1-4. 



yava-aTrrjs, a shaggy woollen cloth. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., cinereous grey, fleshy, somewhat thin, bullate, or ob- 

 tusely campanulate, then expanded, repand, densely tomentose with 

 superficial, separating, silky, adpressed fibrils ; margin white, incurved, 

 woolly. St. 5-6 x 1 cm., shining white, equal, blunt, laxly fibrillose, 

 cortinate. Gills grey, emarginate, free, crowded, 4 mm. broad, edge 

 often uneven. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 p. 

 Woods, and grassy places. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



644. T. terreum (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Tricholoma triste (Scop.) Quel.) 



Terreum, earthy. 



P. 4-8 cm., fuscous, mouse grey, bistre, or blackish, slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate, then expanded, repand when larger, often umbonate, 

 villous, for the most part floccoso-scaly, sometimes broken up into 

 dark innate, adpressed, fibrils ; margin inflexed, naked. St. 5-8 cm. 

 x 8-12 mm., white, or grey, equal, fioccosely fibrillose, apex white 

 pruinose. Gills white, becoming cinereous, emarginate, subdistant, 

 6 mm. broad, edge uneven. Flesh whitish grey, thin, soft, fragile, 

 scissile. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 5-7 x 4-5ja, 1-guttulate. 

 Taste slightly acid. Edible. Coniferous, and beech woods. Jan. 

 Dec. Very common, (v.v.) 



var. atrosquamosum Chev. Cke. Illus. no. 85, t. 51. 



Ater, black; squama, a scale. 



Differs from the type in the small black squamules on the p. and in 

 the apex of the stem having a few black squamulose points. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



645. T. argyraceum (Bull.) Fr. (= Tricholoma scalpturatum Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 36, figs. 14-18. 



apyvpos, silver. 



P. 5-7 cm., whitish, or pale grey, covered with grey scales and fibrils, 

 disc darker, often speckled with yellow, or bistre, convex, then plane, 



