238 TRICHOLOMA 



var. lilaceum Quel. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 3, fig. 1, as Tricholoma 



sordidus Fr. Lilaceum, lilac colour. 



Differs from the type in its small size, and the blue violaceous colour 



of all its parts. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 3ft, 1-guttulate. Woods, 



and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



700. T. cinerascens (Bull, non Fr.) Quel. (= Clitocybe fumosa Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 29. Cinerascens, becoming ash-colour. 

 P. 4-10 cm., fuliginous fuscous, or livid, becoming grey when dry, 

 fleshy, firm, convex, then plane, gibbous, sometimes slightly umbonate, 

 either circinate and regular, or flexuose and undulated, smooth, some- 

 what hygrophanous. St. 5-10 cm. x 8-16 mm., whitish, often stained 

 with brown towards the base, cylindrical, or attenuated at the base, 

 fibrillose, apex pruinose, often connate at the base, or branched. Gills 

 greyish white, paler than the p., adnate, or emarginate, crowded. Flesh 

 greyish, white when dry, thick at the disc, firm. Spores white, globose, 

 5-6/u-, punctate. Taste becoming bitter. Woods. Aug. Oct. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



701. T. panaeolum Fr. (= Tricholoma nimbatum (Batsch) Quel.) Fr. 



Icon. t. 36, lower figs. iravalo\o<;, variegated. 



P. 510 cm., cinereous-fuliginous, becoming paler, pruinosely hoary, 

 and spotted, fleshy, convex, then plane, or here and there depressed, 

 obtuse, often repand and excentric; margin thin, involute, mealy. 

 St. 3-7-5 x 1-2 cm., whitish-grey, fragile, equal, or attenuated at the 

 base, fibrillosely striate. Gills white, then grey, or dingy rufescent, 

 emarginate, or rounded, at length decurrent, very crowded, plane, 

 4 mm. broad. Flesh greyish, becoming whitish, with a horn colour line 

 at the base of the gills, thick at the disc, soft. Spores dirty pink in the 

 mass, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/i. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Form- 

 ing large rings in pastures. Oct. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 

 var. caespitosum Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 153. 



Caespitosum, caespitose. 



Differs from the type in its caespitose habit, the mealy apex ofthest., 

 and the narrower gills. Hilly pastures, and heaths. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 

 var. calceolum (Sterb.) Fr. Calceolus, a small shoe. 



Differs from the type in the deformed p., the naked, incised margin, 

 the excentric, short, fusiform st. and the fuliginous gills. Under hazels. 

 Oct. Rare. 



702. T. cnista Fr. (? = Tricholoma melaleucum (Pers.) Fr. sec. 



Dumee.) Kvlcra, smell of burnt sacrifice. 



P. 58 cm., pale tan, or whitish, disc darker, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, obtuse, smooth, moist; margin incurved naked. St. 3-5 cm. 



x 8-10 mm., white, tough, equal, smooth. Gills white, pallid yellow 



