208 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



V. GUTTATA. 



* Gills whitish. 



Tricholoma gambosum. Fr. 



Smell resembling fresh meal. Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh 

 thick, soft, fragile, white ; hemispherical then convex, at 

 length expanded, obtuse, wavy, even, glabrous, but marked 

 'with drop-like spots, at length cracking, but not becoming 

 truly broken up into squamules, pallid-tan, margin incurved 

 and downy at first; gills emarginate and adnexed, with a 

 somewhat decurrent tooth, sinuate and decurrent when old, 

 crowded, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, whitish ; stem 22^ in. 

 long, ^-1 in. thick, almost equal, base often curved and 

 .ascending when growing in clusters, white, apex downy, 

 solid ; spores elliptical, 13-14 x 8-9 p.. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) gambosus, Fries., Epicr., p. 43; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 37 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 63. 



In pastures, &c. Spring. 



Often growing in circles, or tufted. Smell pleasant, like 

 new meal. 



** Gills discoloured, rufous or smoky. 



Tricholoma amethystinum. Scop. 



Pileus 1^-2 in. across, flesh thick, white ; convex then 

 expanded and often wavy or with the margin slightly 

 upturned, obtuse or with a trace of an umbo, glabrous, even, 

 moist, livid and more or less spotted or stained with blue, 

 margin paler and wrinkled; gills somewhat adnate, 11 line 

 broad, crowded, white then rufescent ; stem l|-2 in. long, 

 3-5 lines thick, attenuated at the base, paler than the pileus, 

 solid, often slightly bent. 



Agaricus amethystinus, Scopoli, Carn., ii. p. 437; Cke., 

 Bdbk., p. 38; Cke., Illustr., pi. 262. 



In pine woods. 



Pileus pale with a dingy olive tinge, and spotted with 

 xslear blue. 



Tricholoma albellum. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick at the disc, becoming thin 

 towards the margin, soft, white, unchangeable ; convex then 



