180 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



lines thick, somewhat equal, at first minutely and densely 

 ^quamulose, then distinctly fibrillose, at length variegated 

 with blackish fibrils, pallid then white, apex white and with 

 meal at the apex, at length fragile. Pileus slightly fleshy, 

 convexo-plane, obtuse, often irregular, 2-3 in. broad, rarely 

 more, viscid, but readily becoming dry and opaque, even, 

 glabrous, not variegated with black fibrils, but marked with 

 stains, lurid-yellowish or greyish-yellow, disc darker. Flesh 

 thin, pallid, at length fragile. Margin thin, naked. Gills 

 deeply emarginate, 3-5 lines broad, ventricose, somewhat 

 crowded, fragile, whitish, trama hyaline and coloured like 

 the flesh of the pileus. Inodorous. Often confounded with 

 forms of T. portentosum, but clearly and easily distinguished 

 by paying attention to the above notes. The stem is not 

 always so distinctly scaly as in the figure in " Icones," 

 tab. 24, which was drawn from a highly evolved specimen. 

 There are forms with the stem short and somewhat bulbous 

 that require to be carefully distinguished from T. portentosum. 

 (Fries.) 



T. portentosum is clearly distinguished from all forms of the 

 present species by having the pileus streaked or virgate 

 with innate black fibrils. 



Tricholoma quinquepartitum. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, fragile ; flesh, with the exception of 

 the disc, thin, fragile, white, rather hygrophanous ; convex 

 'then expanded, wavy, even, glabrous, not by any means, 

 virgate, viscid, fragile, pale yellow; gills emarginate, not 

 -crowded, | in. broad, white; stem 3-4 in. long, | in. and 

 more thick, usually attenuated from base to apex", striate, 

 glabrous, white, solid ; spores 5-6 X 3-4 /u. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) quinquepartttus, Fries, Epicr., p, 27; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 25 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 74. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Sometimes confounded with wavy forms of T. portentosum 

 and T. fucatum; known from the first by the pileus not 

 being virgate or radially streaked with wrinkles ; from the 

 second, by the glabrous striate stem. Smell none, taste 

 mild. 



Tricholoma spermaticum. Fr. 

 White. Smell strong, unpleasant. Pileus 2-3 in. across, 



