188 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



II. GENUINA. 



* Gills not discoloured nor spotted. 



Tricholoma rutilans. Schaeff. 



Pileus 3-6 in. across, flesh thick, soft, deep yellow from 

 "the earliest stage, becoming golden-yellow when broken ; 

 semiovate, obtuse, and with the margin incurved when 

 young, entirely covered with a dense, uninterrupted coating 

 of dark purple or reddish-brown down ; when older becoming 

 campanulate and often umbonate, purple, all one colour ; 

 when mature convex then expanded, often umbonate, the 

 cuticle broken up into small, innate flocose squamules, 

 yellow, variegated with purple; always dry; gills yellow 

 from the first, broadly adnexed, crowded, edge thickened, 

 -obtuse, floccose, often wavy; thinner, broader, and less 

 crowded when adult, edge deep yellow, sides paler; 2-3 in. 

 long, in. thick, fleshy, imperfectly hollow, soft, bulbous 

 when short, ventricose when elongated, yellow; variegated, 

 especially upwards, with purplish, floccose squamules ; spores 

 isubglobose, 5-6 /* diameter. 



Agaricus rutilans, Schaeffer, t. 219; Cke., Hdbk., p. 28; 

 <Cke., Illustr., pi. 89. 



Agaricus serratus, Bolton, t. 14. 



Agaricus xerampelinus, Sow., t. 31. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Inodorous. Dimensions very variable ; in large specimens, 

 usually caespitose, stem 1-2 in thick, pileus up to a span 

 broad, but usually much smaller. (Fries.) 



Commonly confounded with T. variegatum, from which it 

 differs in the flesh being yellow from the first, and deeper 

 an colour; and more especially in the downy or floccose 

 margin of the gills being deep yellow at maturity. In 

 T. variegatum the margin of the gills is quite entire. 



Tricholoma variegatum. Scop. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, fragile, flesh thickish, whitish at 

 rst, then pale yellow; expanded when adult, very obtuse 

 or with a trace of an umbo ; more or less densely and entirely 

 or in part covered with reddish-purple downy tufts on a 



