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also repand, smooth, moist in rainy weather, opaque when dry; 

 margin white, involute at first, exceeding the gills, pruinose. St. 

 5-9 x 2-3 cm., whitish, covered with evanescent, Hue fibrils, equal, 

 base often bulbous, firm, sometimes very short. Gills whitish, becoming 

 discoloured, rounded, then free, broad, 10-15 mm., crowded. Flesh 

 greyish when moist, white when dry, compact, then spongy-soft, thick. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 5/z, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Forming large rings in pastures. Sept. Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



697. T. saevum Gillet. Saevum, wild. 

 P. 6-9 cm., pale tawny, or tan colour, sometimes tinted with violet, 



compact, fleshy, convex; margin incurved, exceeding the gills. St. 

 3-5 x 1-5-2 cm., lilac, or violaceous, apex paler, base white, slightly 

 squamulose, equal. Gills dirty white, or yellowish white, emarginate, 

 narrow, crowded. Flesh whitish, or slightly tinted with violet, thick, 

 spongy. Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 5ju,. Woods, and pastures. 

 Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



698. T. glaucocanum Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 2. 



yKavKos, bluish grey; canum, hoary. 



P. 6-9 cm., bluish grey, becoming hoary, fleshy, somewhat soft, con- 

 vex, then expanded, smooth, moist; margin involute, floccosely 

 pruinose. St. 4-5 x 1-5-2 cm., concolorous, becoming paler, base bulb- 

 ous, fibrillosely-striate, apex subsquamulose. Gills greyish violet, be- 

 coming hoary, emarginate, easily separating from the hymenophore, very 

 crowded. Flesh pale bluish grey, soft, thick. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 3/x, 1-guttulate. Smell strong of new meal. Taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Coniferous, and beech woods on calcareous soil. Sept. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



699. T. nudum (Bull.) Fr. Berk. Outl. t. 4, fig. 7. Nudum, naked. 



P. 7-10 cm., entirely purple violaceous, or with the disc brownish, or 

 tawny, becoming paler, fleshy, convexo-plane, then depressed, obtuse, 

 even, moist; margin inflexed, thin, naked. St. 5-9 x 2 cm., violaceous, 

 becoming pale, elastic, equal, apex mealy. Gills concolorous, becoming 

 pale, rounded, then decurrent, crowded, narrow. Flesh tinged with 

 violet, becoming whitish when dry, thick at the disc. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7 x 3-4/A, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Coniferous, and deciduous woods, rarely in pastures. Sept. Dec. 



Common, (v.v.) 



. 



var. inajus Cke. Majus, larger. 



Differs from the type in being larger, and more robust. Woods. 

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



