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Agaricus (Tricholoma} pes-caprae, Fries, Epicr., p. 45 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 365. 



Among grass, leaves, &c. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose, fragile, much more slender than 

 neighbouring species. (Fries.) 



Far. multiformis, Schaeff., t. 14 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 946. 

 Form variable, caespitose, smaller and flesh of pileus 

 thinner than in the typical form. 



VI. SPONGIOSA. 



* Gills not discoloured. 



Tricholoma patulum. Fr. 



Pileus 2J-4 in. across, flesh thin, not compact, white; 

 firm, convex then plane, obtuse, often wavy, even, glabrous, 

 not spotted, pale ashy-grey ; gills constantly and equally 

 emarginate, almost free, crowded, 2 lines broad, plane, sides 

 veined, whitish; stem 2-4 in. long, |-1 in. thick, equal, 

 rather elastic, glabrous, pure white; flesh fibrous, solid, 

 firm ; spores elliptical, 7-8 X 4 /x. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) patulus, Fries, Epicr., p. 47; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 39 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 279. 



In mossy meadows, under birches, &c. 



Solitary, or growing in troops. Inodorous. Cannot be 

 compared with any other species of Tricholoma, but re- 

 sembling certain caespitose species of Clitocybe, from which 

 it is quite distinct in the remarkably emarginate, and almost 

 free gills. The colour somewhat resembles that of Collybia 

 platyphylla, but the two are not at all allied, the last-named 

 differing in the thinner, virgate pileus and very broad gills. 



Very luxuriant in rainy seasons, and when the weather is 

 very dry it is entirely absent. In dry seasons it is solitary, 

 whereas during rainy seasons it is densely caespitose. 

 (Fries.) 



Tricholoma Schumacher!. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thick, spongy, white, 

 compact; convex then expanded, obtuse, regular, even, 

 glabrous, moist in rainy weather but not hygrophanouts, 



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