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less turgid, dirty white stem, cuticle not so brown, innate 

 fibres, and in being tinged with red, especially near the 

 base. In some of these characters it agrees with T. sudum r 

 from which it differs in its undulating pileus, distant gills, 

 and often rooting stem. The whole plant is fragile, the 

 gills have a cinereous tinge, usually at length becoming 

 rufescent. It frequently has a powerful odour of new 

 meal, and is intermediate between T. sudum and T. tumidum^ 

 but is nearer the latter. (Phil. & Plow.) 

 In pine woods. 



Tricholoma sudum. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thickish, firm, white ; convex 

 then plane or even upturned, obtuse, dry, broken up into- 

 scales, rufous or brownish-rufous ; gills deeply emarginate 

 with a decurrent tooth, about 3 lines broad, crowded, whitish, 

 margin rufescent, but not truly spotted with rufous ; stem 

 about 3 in. long, in. and more thick, slightly thinner 

 upwards, punctate with minute squamules but not fibrillose > 

 pallid with a slight tinge of rufous, base with white down,, 

 solid; spores elliptical, 6-7 X 3' 5 //,. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma} sudus, Fries, Epicr., p. 38. 



Among grass in woods, &c. 



Somewhat resembling T. arcuatum ; the latter differs in the- 

 bulbous stem. 



Tricholoma virgatum. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, greyish-white, rigid ; 

 convex then expanded, somewhat umbonate, always very 

 dry, glabrous and almost even, but elegantly virgate or 

 streaked with fine black lines formed by innate fibrils; 

 greyish, umbo often darker, broken up into squamules 

 when old ; margin straight and naked at first ; gills broadly 

 emarginate, 3-5 lines broad, crowded, at length greyish; 

 stem about 3 in. long, ^ in. and more thick, equal, or the 

 base more or less swollen, striate, usually glabrous, some- 

 times squamulose, whitish both outside and inside, firm* 

 solid; spores subglobose, 6-8 x 5-6 p.. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma} virgatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 39; Cke.,. 

 Hdbk., p. 35; Cke., Illustr., pi. 167. 



In pine and other woods. 



Usually solitary. A well-marked species, being the only 



