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the stem towards the margin. Flesh white, thin at the margin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 3fj,, 1-guttulate. Pine woods, and under 

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



717. T. putidum Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 47, figs. 19-22. 



Putidum, stinking. 



P. 3-6 cm., greyish bistre, or olivaceous, becoming hoary when dry, 

 often sprinkled with white silkiness, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, 

 hemispherical, umbonate, soft; margin straight. St. 4-9 x -5-1 cm., 

 grey, equal, covered with a white, thin, evanescent pruina, fibrillosely 

 striate, somewhat fragile. Gills cinereous, sinuato-adnate, ventricose, 

 crowded, 4-6 mm. broad. Flesh bistre, thin. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 9-11 x 4-5 p, with a large central gutta. Smell rancid, of new meal. 

 Fir woods, and amongst pine needles. Oct. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores pink. 



Entoloma Fr. 



(eVro9, within; \(Ofia, a fringe.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, or irregular. Stem central, fibrous, or fleshy. 

 Gills sinuate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores pink, angular, 

 globose, elliptical, or verrucose. Cystidia rarely present. Growing on 

 the ground, very rarely on wood; solitary, gregarious, or caespitose. 



I. Pileus fleshy, smooth, moist or viscid. 



718. E. sinuatum Fr. (= Entoloma lividum (Bull.) Fr. sec. Dumee.) 



Cke. Illus. no. 316, t. 310. Sinuatum, waved. 



P. 8-25 cm., becoming yellowish white, very fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, at first gibbous, then depressed; margin repand, sinuate. 

 St. 7-18 x 2-5 cm., shining white, firm, equal, compact, fibrillose, 

 then smooth. Gills pale yellowish-rufescent, emarginate, slightly ad- 

 nexed, 12-18 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh white. Spores pink, angular, 

 globose, 8-9 ju,. Smell strong, pleasant, almost like burnt sugar. Taste 

 pleasant. Poisonous. Gregarious, in mixed woods. July Oct. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



719. E. lividum (Bull.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 90, fig. 3. Lividus, livid. 

 P. 7-15 cm., livid tan, becoming pale, fleshy, disc somewhat com- 

 pact, convex, then plane, somewhat gibbous, silky, fibrillose under a 

 lens. St. 7-8 x 2-5-3 cm., shining white, equal, slightly striate, apex 

 pruinose. Gills whitish, then flesh colour, rounded, somewhat free, 

 attenuated in front, 6-10 mm. broad, distant. Flesh white, brownish 

 under the cuticle of the pileus. Spores pink, angular, elliptical, 9- 

 11 x 6-8 /x, 1-3-guttulate. Smell pleasant, of new meal, then becoming 

 unpleasant. Taste pleasant. Poisonous. Woods, and pastures. 

 April Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



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