224 TRICHOLOMA 



subumbonate; margin white. St. 4-7 cm. x 8-12 mm., white,or greyish, 

 equal, often covered with small, blackish scales. Gills whitish, often 

 tinged with yellow, sinuato-adnate, crowded. Flesh greyish. Spores white, 

 pip-shaped, or almond-shaped, 5-6 x 3-5-4/z, with a large central 

 gutta. Beech, oak, and pine woods. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



646. T. chrysites (Jungh.) Gillet. ^pvcrLrr)^, like gold. 

 P. 4-5 cm., brownish black, often stained yellowish, campanulate, 



then plane, umbonate, covered with floccose scales ; margin yellowish. 

 St. 4-5 cm. x 8-12 mm., white, often tinged with yellow, equal, slightly 

 fibrillose, base reddish. Gills white, stained yellowish, especially at the 

 edge, sinuato-adnate. Flesh yellowish. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 4 /*. Pine woods, and under pines. Sept. Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var.. virescens Wharton. Cke. Illus. no. 1118, t. 641, as Tricholoma 



argyraceum Fr . var . virescens Cke . Virescens, becoming green . 



Differs from the type in the p., St., and gills becoming greenish. 

 Woods. Sept. 



647. T. orirubens Quel. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. n, t. 1, fig. 2. 



Os, mouth; rubens, becoming reddish. 



P. 6-8 cm., grey, disc brownish black, fragile, convex, then plane, 

 smooth and pruinose, then shaggy. St. 5-7 cm. x 8-12 mm., white, 

 streaked with rose colour, more or less coloured blue, or greenish at the 

 base, fusiform, fibrillose. Gills white, edge reddish, emarginate, distant, 

 undulating. Flesh white. Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 6/i. Smell of 

 new meal. Taste unpleasant. Woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



648. T. triste (Scop.) Fr. Triste, sad. 

 P. 3-4 cm., dark grey, minutely scaly fibrillose, slightly fleshy, 



conico-campanulate, then convex and umbonate; margin involute, 

 fibrillose, appendiculate with the white, arachnoid veil. St. 3-5 cm. x 5- 

 12 mm., white, with a fuscous ring-like mark, the remains of the arach- 

 noid veil, floccose, then smooth. Gills whitish becoming cinereous, 

 emarginato-adnexed, narrow, subdistant. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores 

 white, subglobose, 3-4 x 3/x, with a large central gutta. Under 

 beeches. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 T. ramentaceum (Bull.) Quel. = Armillaria ramentacea (Bull.) Fr. 



649. T. murinaceum (Bull.) Fr. Murinaceum, like mice. 

 P. 510 cm., blackish brown, covered with darker, longitudinal fibres, 



and cracked, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate, or gibbous; margin 

 dark, incurved, woolly. St. 5-7 x 2-5 cm., concolorous, longitudinally 

 streaked with blackish fibrils, thickened at the base. Gills white, then 

 grey, deeply sinuate, very broad, fragile, often undulated and blackish 



