228 TRICHOLOMA 



660. T. sudum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 34, lower figs. Sudum, dry. 

 P. 6-9 cm., greyish rufous, or brownish, fleshy, convexo-plane, then 



reflexed, obtuse, often rimosely squamulose; margin paler. St. 6 

 8 x 1-5 cm., whitish, tinged with reddish, slightly attenuated upwards, 

 punctate with minute squamules, fibrillosely striate, apex dilated, base 

 white floccose. Gills whitish, becoming reddish at the edge, deeply 

 emarginate with a decurrent tooth, crowded. Flesh white, firm. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 6 x 4/x, punctate. Grassy places in woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Eare. 



661. T. tumidum (Pers.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 39, figs. 1-5. 



Tumidum, swollen. 



P. 7-5-9 cm., cinereous-livid, disc darker, variegated with tiger-like 

 spots, subcartilaginous, irregularly shaped, bullate, then undulated 

 when expanded, at length rimosely incised, shining when dry; margin 

 tlnn,lobed. St. 7-5 x 1-5-2 cm., shining white, equal, sometimes swollen, 

 stout, striate, often attenuated and rooting at the base. Gills shining 

 white, then cinereous rufescent, emarginate, 12 mm. broad, thicker at 

 the base, subdistant. Flesh white, often tinged reddish in the St., firm, 

 rigid. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/A, granular. Smell slight, 

 pleasant. Moist pine woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon. 



var. Keithii Phill. & Plowr. Rev. Dr J. Keith. 



Differs from the type in the cinereo-rufescent p., the dirty white st., 



with brownish innate fibrils, becoming tinged with red especially near the 



base, and in often having a strong smell of new meal. Pine woods. Oct. 



662. T. hordum Fr. Hordum, pregnant. 

 P. 8 cm., grey, disc darker, soon cracking, and covered with minute, 



squarrose scales, slightly fleshy, campanulato-expanded, then plane, 

 subumbonate, revolute, dry. St. 6-8 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, or greyish, 

 equal, striate. Gills white, becoming cinereous, emarginate, broad, 

 subdistant. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, "subglobose, 10/x, with a 

 large central gutta" Quel., "elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 /u" Kick. Taste 

 mild. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



663. T. virgatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 34, upper figs. Virgatum, striped. 

 P. 5-10 cm., grey-cinereous, umbo often darker, fleshy, rigid, convex, 



then flattened, subumbonate, very dry, streaked with fine black innate 

 fibrils, or black squamules', margin straight, naked. St. 7-5-10 x 1- 

 1-5 cm., whitish, or greyish, firm, equal, or tuberous at the very base, 

 striate, sometimes squamulose. Gills white, then greyish, becoming 

 hoary, broadly emarginate, 6-10 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh greyish 

 white, becoming white in the st., thin. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 

 67 x 4 5/z, punctate. Cystidia "on edge of gill clavate, 45 x 10- 

 !3fjL, filled with darkish juice " Rick. Taste very bitter when young, 

 then mild. Mixed, and pine woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



