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on the edge, distant. Flesh white, then greyish, thick. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 6-8 x 4-5/n. Smell strong, unpleasant. Taste unpleasant. 

 Mixed woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



650. T. squarrulosum Bres. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 4. 



Squarrulosum, scaly. 



P. 4-8 cm., fuscous, densely covered with squarrose, blockish squamules, 

 fleshy, convex, then expanded, dry; margin fibrillose, exceeding the 

 gills. St. 4-5 cm. x 5-7 mm., concolorous, equal, or incrassated at 

 the base, densely covered with blackish, fuscous squamules. Gills grey, 

 becoming reddish when touched, sinuato-adnexed, almost free, 6-7 mm. 

 broad, crowded. Flesh greyish, then white. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 7-8 x 4-5/u,, with a large central gutta. In pine, and oak woods. 

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



651. T. horribile Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 7. 



Horribile, terrible. 



P. 10-12 cm., fuscous, and densely covered with dark fuscous squa- 

 mules, that become squarrose with age especially on the disc, the p. 

 becoming tinged with a pink background at maturity, fleshy, convex, 

 then expanded; margin thin exceeding the gills. St. 8-9 x 2cm., 

 white, smooth, incrassated at the base. Gills whitish, then pinkish, 

 emarginate, very broad, 2 cm. wide, crowded, edge uneven. Flesh 

 white, becoming pinkish, everywhere covered with fuscous spots, which 

 on the interior of the p. suggest that its squamules have been riveted 

 through the depth of the flesh. Spores white, globose, 5/t. Under 

 beech trees. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



C. Cuticle of the p. rigid, punctate-granulate, or broken 

 up into glabrous squamules when dry. 

 (a) Gills white, or pallid, not spotted. 



652. T. macrorhizum (Lasch) Fr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 3, fig. 1, as Tricho- 



loma macrocephalum Schulz. pa/epos, long; pia, root. 



P. 20-30 cm., ochraceous, then darker, fleshy, compact, convex, then 

 plane, depressed at the disc, at first smooth, then broken up in a 

 tesselated manner. St. 1015 x 5-6 cm., whitish, ochraceous downwards, 

 very minutely granular, ventricose, prolonged into a thick, blunt, white 

 root, deeply sunk in the soil. Gills pallid, deeply emarginate, almost 

 free, attenuated in front, scarcely crowded, 12-18 mm. broad. Flesh 

 white, firm, becoming light yellow when broken. Spores white, "irregu- 

 larly globose, Qfj, " Massee. Smell very unpleasant, corpse-like Taste 

 unpleasant. Under oaks in pastures. Sept. Nov. Rare. 



653. T.compactumFr. Fr. Icon. t. 35, upper figs. Compactum, compact. 

 P. 7-15 cm., cinereous-livid, fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, 



dry, glabrous. St. 3-5 x 3 cm., white, attenuated upwards, smooth, 



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