TRICHOLOMA 241 



710. T. brevipes (Bull.) Fr. (= Tricholoma melaleucum (Pers.) Fr. sec. 



Dumee.) Cke. Illus. no. 120, t. 68. Brevis, short; pes, foot. 

 P. 58 cm., umber, becoming pale, fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, 

 moist, opaque when dry; margin at first strongly incurved. St. 

 13 x 1-3 cm., fuscous, or bistre, rigid, firm, equal, attenuated down- 

 wards, or bulbous, fibrillose, apex pruinose. Gills fuscous, or bistre, 

 becoming whitish, emarginato-free, ventricose, crowded. Flesh of p. 

 fuscous, becoming white when dry, fuscous in the st., especially at the 

 base, firm, then soft. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6/x, punctate. 

 Cystidia on edge of gill sparse, lanceolate, 55-65 x ll-14|u, shaggy 

 at the apex. Taste mild. Edible. Pastures, woods, and cinder paths. 

 June Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



711. T. humile (Pers.) Fr. (= Tricholoma exscissum Fr. sec. Quel., 



Tricholoma melaleucum (Pers.) Fr. sec. Dumee.) Cke. Illus. 



no. 122, t. 263, fig. A. Humile, lowly. 



P. 5-12 cm., fuscous-cinereous, mouse grey, or bistre, becoming pale, 

 fleshy, convex, soon flattened, somewhat repand, often umbonate, 

 sometimes depressed, pruinose, pulverulent, hygrophanous ; margin 

 thin, exceeding the gills, often white. St. 4-9 x 1-5-2-5 cm., white, or 

 becoming greyish, fragile, somewhat equal, villosely pulverulent. Gills 

 white, then greyish, rounded-adnexed, decurrent with a tooth, and 

 often arcuato-decurrent, crowded, narrow, 4-6 mm. broad. Flesh 

 whitish, grey under the cuticle, soft, thick at the disc. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 9 x 6ja, minutely echinulate. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 lanceolate, pointed, 55-65 x 10-13/>t, shaggy at the apex" Rick. 

 Smell of new meal. Edible. Woods, and pastures. April Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. blandum Berk. = Tricholoma melaleucum (Pers.) Fr. 



var. evectum Grove. Evectum, carried out. 



P. 7-59 cm., fuscous, becoming pale, plane, then depressed, or con- 

 cave, smooth; margin entire, not striate. St. 7-5-8 cm. x 8mm., 

 somewhat fuscous, incrassated at the apex, thickened at the base, 

 fibrous, punctately squamulose, striate, apex white, pulverulent. Gills 

 pale ochraceous, sinuate, crowded, thin, edge entire. Flesh pallid. 

 Spores white, oval, 6-7 x 4-5|u,. Amongst heaps of leaves. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



712. T. exscissum Fr. (= Tricholoma humile Pers. sec. Quel.) Fr. 



Icon. t. 44, lower figs. Exscissum, torn out. 



P. 3-7 cm., mouse grey, or fuscous cinereous, becoming paler and 

 often yellowish, slightly fleshy, campanulate, soon plane, with a pro- 

 minent umbo, smooth. St. 2-5-5 cm, x 2-8 mm. white, then ochraceous, 

 equal, polished. Gills white, emarginate, linear, narrow, 2-3 mm. 



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