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that of Trich. sulphured. I find a state of this with the 

 pileus singularly compressed all round, minutely pitted and 

 wrinkled, the epidermis cracked, so as to appear tesselated. 

 Fries in his specific character describes it as smooth, but in 

 his subjoined remark implies that it is " sericeo-adpressus." 

 Hygr. cossus, Sow., with which Fries compares it in his 

 Elenchus is certainly quite different, as stated above. My 

 specimens have not so much the habit of that, as of Trich. 

 cinerascens, Bull., or Trich. columbetta. (Berk.) 



Var. insignis, Mass. Gills decurrent, truly distant. 



The smell is so precisely like that of the normal A. 

 inamoenus, that I follow Fries in considering it a mere 

 variety. (B. & Br.) 



** Gills thin, crowded, narrow. Small ; inodorous. 



Tricholoma cerinum. Pers. 



Pileus 1-1 1 in. across, flesh thin, firm, white; convex 

 then expanded, obtuse, at length depressed, very opaque 

 and remarkably dry, even and almost glabrous, dingy wax- 

 colour or brownish ; gills sinuate, adnexed, separating from 

 the stem, horizontal, plane, very thin and crowded, 1 line 

 broad, dark yellow or wax-colour ; stem about 1 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, equal, naked, fibrillosely striate, yellow, 

 base sometimes brown, stufied. 



Agaricus cerinus, Persoon, Syn., p. 321 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 36 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 95u. 



In dry pine woods, &c. 



Small, the structure of the stem inclines to that cha- 

 racteristic of Clitocybe, but the gills are sinuate when per- 

 fectly developed. (Fries.) 



The yellow gills, contrasted with the brown pileus, make 

 it a very pretty species. The pileus in our specimens is 

 brown, which seems to be the more usual colour; but it is 

 sometimes yellow. (B. & Br.) 



Tricholoma fallax. Peck. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin; convex then ex- 

 panded, rarely depressed at the centre, moist, smooth, yellow, 



