236 TRICHOLOMA 



which become revolute and fibrillose with age ; margin citron yellow, 

 involute. St. 6-7 x 1-2 cm., whitish, spotted with yellow, attenuated 

 downwards. Gills whitish, becoming yellowish, sinuato-adnate, 4-5 mm. 

 broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh whitish, citron yellow under the epi- 

 dermis of the p., and dark yellow at the base of the stem. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 6 x 4/x, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Under larches. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



693. T. militate (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 112, t. 169. 



Militare, soldier-like. 



P. 10-17 cm., reddish cinnamon, fleshy, gibbous, then plane, or 

 depressed, compact, flexuous, rather smooth, viscid ; margin involute, 

 white, floccose. St. 7-12 x 2-2-5 cm., pallid, becoming stained with 

 red, fibrillosely striate, base subbulbous. Gills whitish, or reddish, 

 then livid-spotted, emarginate, somewhat crowded, torn, margin eroded. 

 Flesh white, brownish, under the cuticle of the p. and in the centre of the 

 stem, thick, compact, firm. Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/A, 1-guttu- 

 late. Smell very strong, taste unpleasant. Woods. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



694. T. civile Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 42, upper figs. Civile, citizen-like. 

 P. 69 cm., tawny yellow, becoming paler, disc darker, fleshy, fragile, 



convexo-plane, obtuse, very smooth, moist, pellicle separable. St. 5- 

 8 x 23 cm., whitish, fragile, attenuated upwards from the thickened 

 base, fibrillose, or squamulose. Gills whitish, becoming yellowish, deeply 

 emarginate, almost free, crowded, 6 mm. broad, very soft. Flesh 

 whitish, soft, fragile, spongy. Spores white, elliptical, or pip-shaped, 

 5-6 x 3fji. Smell none, or like hay according to Barla. Taste sweet, 

 then astringent, and bitter. Woods. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



695. T. irinum Fr. (= Tricholoma boreale Fr. sec. Quel.) Trans. Brit. 



Myc. Soc. rv, t. 8. ipivov, belonging to the Iris. 



P. 5-12 cm., pale flesh colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 moist, glabrous, sometimes obscurely virgate ; margin white, incurved, 

 pruinose. St. 6-12 x 2-3 cm., paler than the p., subbulbous, striate, 

 apex whitish, pruinose. Gills pale ochre, becoming somewhat lurid with 

 age, sinuato-adnate, narrow, 5-6 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh tinted 

 pale pink, then white, firm, thick, compact. Spores dirty pink, or 

 yellowish in the mass, hyaline, elliptical, or pip-shaped, 7-9 x 4-5/i, 

 1-guttulate. Smell very pleasant, like Iris, or Viola, according to 

 Quelet. Taste mild. Edible. Pastures, and orchards. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



696. T. personatum Fr. (= Tricholoma amethystinum Quel. non Fr.) 



Cke. Illus. no. 113, t. 66. Personatum, masked. 



P. 6-15 cm., tan colour, fuscous, or whitish, very fleshy, thick, hemi- 

 spherical, then convex and flattened, very obtuse, regular, at length 



