232 TRICHOLOMA 



length flattened and obtuse, often umbonate, smooth, dry. St. 

 2-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., flesh colour, becoming pale, attenuated downwards, 

 tough, almost cartilaginous, rigid, apex somewhat pruinose. Gills 

 shining white, rounded, somewhat free, horizontal, very crowded, wider 

 at the base, 2-3 mm. broad. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 5-6 x 2-3jLt. Pastures, heaths, and downs. July Oct. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



T. carneolum Fr. = Tricholoma carneum (Bull.) Fr. 



677. T. caelatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 37, lower figs. Caelatum, engraved. 

 P. 2-5-3 cm., fuscous, becoming pale grey when dry, slightly fleshy, 



convex, umbilicate, smooth, becoming flocculose and rimosely cracked. 

 St. 2-5-3-5 cm. x 3-5 mm., concolorous, tough, elastic, equal, or 

 slightly thickened at the pruinose apex. Gills dingy whitish, or grey, 

 sinuato-adnate, with a small decurrent tooth, slightly arcuate, 

 crowded. Flesh subfuscous, thin. Spores dingy white, elliptical, 

 8 x 4/i. Cystidia "subulate, 40-60 x 5-6 p, filled with olive yellow 

 juice " Rick. Woods, and downs. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



E. P. fleshy, soft, fragile, spotted, or rivulose. Vernal, 

 (a) GUIs whitish. 



678. T. gambosum Fr. (= Tricholoma Georgii (L'Ecluse) Quel.) 



Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 41, figs. 1-7. Gamba, a hoof. 



P. 7-5-11 cm., ochraceous, or pale tan, fleshy, hemispherico-convex, 

 then flattened, obtuse, undulated, repand, even, smooth, spotted as 

 with drops, at length widely cracked; margin at first involute, tomentose. 

 St. 5-10 x 1-3 cm., white, or ochraceous, firm, almost equal, often 

 curved-ascending at the base; apex white, villous, striate from the 

 decurrent tooth of the gills. Gills whitish, rounded, or emarginato- 

 adnexed, with a subdecurrent tooth, sinuato-decurrent when old, 

 ventricose, 4-6 mm. wide, crowded. Flesh white, thick, soft, fragile. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/u,, 2-guttulate. Smell and taste 

 strong, of new meal. Edible. Pastures, often forming large rings. 

 April June. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



679. T. Georgii (Clus.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 41, figs. 8-11. 



Georgius, Saint George. 



P. 4-6 cm., ochraceous, then white, fleshy, convexo-plane, then 

 somewhat repand, often gibbous, dry, slightly floccose; margin naked. 

 St. 4-6 x 1-5-2 cm., whitish, or tinged yellowish, attenuated down- 

 wards, fibrillose. Gills whitish, attenuato-adnexed, narrow, crowded. 

 Flesh white, firm, thick. Spores white, elliptical, 56 x 3/j,. Taste 

 and smell weak, of new meal. Edible. Woods, and open downs. 

 April June. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



