TRICHOLOMA 233 



680. T. albellum Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 41, figs. 12-17. 



Albellum, whitish. 



P. 6-7 cm., yellowish, then whitish, becoming greyish when dry, 

 fleshy, conical, then convex, gibbous when expanded, moist, spotted as 

 with scales; margin thin, naked. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., concolorous, 

 fibrillosety striate, often incrassated at the base. Gills white, then 

 cream colour, attenuato-adnexed, broad in front, very crowded. Flesh 

 white, thick at the disc, soft, floccose. Spores white, elliptical, 5- 

 6 x 3/ji, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste weak, of new meal. Edible. 

 Woods, and under yews. April June. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



681. T. boreale Fr. (= Tricholoma irinum (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 41, 



upper figs. Boreale, northern. 



P. 57-5 cm., flesh colour, then whitish tan, fleshy, very variable in 

 shape, convex, umbonate, unequal, often flexuose, smooth, cracked 

 wlien dry, margin thin, involute, naked. St. 5-7-5 x 1 cm., paler than 

 the p., attenuated downwards, often twisted and incurved, apex obso- 

 letely pruinose. Gills whitish, emarginate with a decurrent tooth, thin, 

 crowded. Flesh white, soft. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 4 5/n. 

 Smell of new meal. Grassy places in woods. June July. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



(b) Gills discoloured, rufescent, or smoky. 



682. T. amethystinum (Scop.) Fr. non Quel. 



Amethystinum, amethyst colour. 



P. 3-5 cm., livid, spotted with azure blue, fleshy, convexo-plane, 

 obtuse, repand, smooth, even, moist; margin paler, wrinkled. St. 

 35 x 11-5 cm., paler than the p., attenuated at the base. Gills white, 

 then rufescent, subadnate, crowded. Spores white, "ovoid, 7/u, long " 

 Sacc. Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 



T. tigrinum Fr. Icon, non Schaeff. = Hygrophorus camarophyllus 



(A. & S.) Fr. 



683. T. pes-caprae Fr. (= Clitocybe conglobata (Vitt.) Bres.) 



Pes, foot; capra, she-goat. 



P. 5-10 cm., grey, becoming fuscous, variegated, fleshy, conical, then 

 expanded, umbonate, unequal, rimosely incised; margin thin, naked. 

 St. 6-7 x 1 cm., white, equal or attenuated downwards, naked. Gills 

 white, becoming cinereous, emarginate, very broad, 12-15 mm., at length 

 distant. Flesh thick at the disc. Spores white, " 6 x 4 " Sacc. Smell 

 of new meal. Edible. Open places under oaks. Oct. Nov. Kare. 

 var. multiforme (SchaefE.) Cke. Schaeff. Icon. t. 14. 



Multiforme, many shaped. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, and in the irregular thinner 

 p. Lawns. Nov. Rare. 



