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when bruised, adnexed, rounded behind, inclined to separate from 

 the p., transversely veined, crisped when dry. Flesh white, rather thick, 

 soft. Spores white, elliptical, 7-10 x 4/x,, "roughish" Eick. Smell 

 of cooked flesh. Amongst grass in open places. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



703. T. duracinum Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1126, t. 640. 



Durus, hard; acinum, berry. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., cinereous, fleshy, firm, convex, broadly umbonate, 

 dry, smooth, shining; margin involute. St. 5-7-5 x 2-5-3 cm., paler 

 than the p., or greyish white, attenuated upwards, striate below, apex 

 reticulately squamose. Gills cinereous, emarginate, arcuate, narrow, 

 2-3 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh nearly white, thick, firm. Under 

 cedars. Oct. Rare. 



G. P. thin, subumbonate, hygrophanous (Melanoleuca Pat.), 

 (a) Gills whitish, unspotted. 



704. T. grammopodium (Bull.) Fr. (=Tricholomamelaleucum (Pers.) Fr. 



sec.Dumee.) Cke.Illus.no. 118, t. 98. 7pa/i/z.7,aline; 7rou9,foot. 

 P. 7-15 cm., pallid-livid, or fuscous rufous, whitish when dry, fleshy, 

 campanulate, then convex, at length flattened, obtusely umbonate, 

 smooth, moist pellicle separable. St. 7-10 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, longi- 

 tudinally striate with bistre, or brownish fibrils, elastic, equal, base 

 thickened, firm. Gills whitish, becoming brownish, arcuato-adnate, or 

 broadly, horizontally emarginate, often acute at both ends, very 

 crowded, very many shorter gills, often branched behind. Flesh bistre 

 when moist, becoming white when dry, thick at the disc, spongy. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-6/4, punctate. Smell mouldy. Edible. 

 Forming large rings in pastures and orchards, and solitary, on leaf 

 mould, in deciduous woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



705. T. melaleucum (Pers.) Fr. (= Tricholoma arcuatum Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 44, upper figs. ^eXa<?, black; \evfcov, white. 

 P. 4-10 cm., dark fuliginous when moist, then livid fuscous, paler 

 when dry, umbo blackish, fleshy, convex, then flattened, umbonate, 

 smooth, moist. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., whitish with darker striae, 

 base fuscous, elastic, thickened at the base, fibrillosely striate. Gills 

 white, emarginato-adnexed, horizontal, straight, broad, more or less 

 ventricose, crowded. Flesh white, becoming fuliginous, soft. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 8 x 5/n, warted, apiculate at the base. Cystidia on 

 edge of gill lanceolate subulate, 50-60 x 10-15/u,, shaggy at the apex. 

 Taste mild. Edible. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Nov. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



var. adstringens (Pers.) Quel. Adstringens, abridged. 



Differs from the type in the rigid, pitch black p. and in the white gills 

 becoming pinkish. Pastures, and downs. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



