TBICHOLOMA 229 



664. T. elytroides (Scop.) Fr. eXvrpov, a cover; e'Sos, like. 

 P. 6-9 cm., mouse grey, or brownish black, slightly fleshy, convex, 



then plane, obtuse, fragile, very dry, rough with crowded, erect minute 

 granules, disc floccosely scaly, becoming hoary when old. St. 7- 

 8x 1-1 -5 cm., white, becoming cinereous, attenuated downwards, 

 covered with erect, light grey fibrils. Gills cinereous, then pruinose, 

 deeply emarginate, very broad, somewhat thick, fragile, veined at 

 the base. Flesh white, sometimes becoming reddish, thick at the disc. 

 Spores white, 6-7 x 4-5 /z, or "5-6 x 3-5-4 p. " Sacc. Smell weak, of 

 new meal. Grassy places. Oct. Rare. 



665. T. opicum Fr. Opicum, clownish. 

 P. 2-5-3-5 cm., grey, or brownish grey, disc blackish, slightly fleshy, 



convex, then expanded, obtusely, or conically umbonate, at length 

 split, revolute, very dry, smooth, then minutely squamulose; margin 

 often white, or whitish. St. 47-5 x -5 cm., pallid, becoming cinereous, 

 somewhat shining, equal, fibrillose, becoming smooth. Gills white, or 

 slightly greyish, becoming hoary, broadly emarginate, ventricose, some- 

 what thick, scarcely distant. Flesh greyish, very thin at the margin. 

 Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Rare. 



D. P. at first slightly silky, soon becoming smooth, very dry. 

 (a) Gills broad, rather thick, subdistant. 



666. T. sulphureum (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 96, t. 62. 



Sulphureum, sulphur coloured. 



P. 4-8 cm., sulphur yellow, disc dingy, or rufescent, fleshy, globose, 

 then convexo-plane, subumbonate, at length depressed, unequal, silky, 

 becoming smooth. St. 5-11 x 1 cm., concolorous, equal, often curved, 

 striate. Gills sulphur yellow, adfixed, narrowed behind, arcuato- 

 emarginate, rather thick, distant. Flesh yellow. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 9-10 x 4 5/x. Smell pleasant, of gas tar. Oak, and mixed 

 woods. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



667. T. bufonium (Pers.) Fr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 39, fig. 1. Bufo, a toad. 

 P. 3-7 cm., umber, fuscous tan, or tawny, disc rufescent, fleshy, con- 

 vexo-plane, subumbonate, silky, becoming smooth, rugulose. St. 4- 

 5 cm. x 8-14 mm., yellow, or tinged with red, equal, or attenuated 

 at the base, fiocculose. Gills yellow tan, pallid, arcuato-subdecurrent, 

 subdistant, margin often irregular. Flesh yellow. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5/x. Smell weak, of gas tar. Pine woods, and pastures. 

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



668. T. lascivum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 38, upper figs. Lascivum, wanton. 

 P. 5-9 cm., pallid tan, disc darker, fleshy, convex, then plane, 



obtuse, at length somewhat depressed, delicately silky, then smooth, 



