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edge at length black. Individuals occur much thicker and 

 larger. 



Having at length found this species, I am able to state 

 positively that it is not the plant of Fries; the specific 

 name refers to the colour, not to the scent, which is very 

 slight, and by no means nitrous. It is not at all moist or 

 viscid, but has a clothy feel, being virgate and silky. The 

 gills are not olivaceous when rubbed. Its affinities are 

 rather with Ag. argyraceus than with Hygrophorus. (Berk.) 



Very variable in form and size, and more especially in the 

 colour of the pileus ; nevertheless it is easily recognised by 

 the form and colour of the large, broad gills, and by the 

 extremely fragile flesh. (Bulliard.) 



Trieholoma terreum. Schaeff. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, disc fleshy, thin elsewhere ; soft, 

 campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, entirely covered 

 with innate downy squamules, dark bluish -grey, sometimes 

 with a tinge of brown ; gills cut out behind and adnexed, 

 with a minute decurrent tooth, 2 lines or more broad, 

 margin crenulate, greyish- white ; stem 1-3 in. high, ^ in. 

 thick, almost equal, adpressedly fibrillose whitish, stuffed ; 

 spores subglobose, 5-6 /*. 



Agaricus terreus, Schaeffer, t. 64 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 31 ; Cke., 

 Ulustr,, pi. 50. 



In woods, especially of fir. 



Solitary or caespitose, almost without smell; sometimes 

 large and with the pileus wavy and fibrillosely squamulose, 

 sometimes small, regular, pileus papillate and also squamu- 

 losely punctate. Pileus grey, bluish, fuscous, &c. (Fries.) 



Var. orirubens, Quelet; Cke., Illustr., pi. 90; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 31. 



About the size of the typical form ; pileus fleshy, convex, 

 fragile, smooth, grey, brownish in the centre; clad with 

 blackish fibrils; stem solid, fibrous, white, streaked with 

 rose at the base; flesh white; gills emarginite, undulated, 

 white with the edge reddish or rose-colour ; spores elliptical, 

 6-7 X 3-S^i. 



Ou the ground. Smell like new meal. 



Var. atrosquamosus, Chev. ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 32 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi, 51. 



