214 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



long. 3 lines thick ; hollow, fibrous but polished and somewhat 

 cartilaginous externally, base solid, attenuated, rooting, 

 twisted, even, glabrous ; spores subglobose minutely echinu- 

 late, 9-10 X 7-8 /*. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) leucocephalus, Fries, Epicr., p. 47 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 40 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 78. 



On naked ground, also among grass, &c. 



T. album somewhat resembles the present species, but 

 differs in being inodorous. T. inamoenum differs in the very 

 strong disagreeable smell, and the very broad gills. 



** Gills discoloured. 



Tricholoma militare. Lasch. 



Pileus 47 in. across, flesh thick, firm, white ; pileus at 

 first convex and gibbous, with the margin incurved and 

 furnished with white floccose down, then expanded and more 

 or less plane or depressed and wavy, almost glabrous, viscid, 

 cinnamon or yellowish, margin even ; gills emarginate, 

 slightly crowded, whitish, at length spotted, 2 lines broad, 

 edge becoming torn; stem 3^-5 in. long, up to 1 in. thick at 

 the somewhat bulbous or thickened base, squamulose or 

 coarsely fibrillose, pallid, solid. 



Agaricus militaris, Lasch, Linnea, no. 490; Cke., Hdbk..,, 

 p. 40; Cke., Illustr., pi. 169. 



In woods, &c. 



Smell and taste unpleasant. Differs from Tricholoma 

 civile in the strong smell and spotted gills. 



Tricholoma civile. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh white, soft, rather thick ; 

 convex then almost plane, even, glabrous, cuticle separable, 

 rather viscid, gilvous or pale yellowish brown ; gills deeply 

 emarginate, 2-3 lines broad, crowded, white then yellowish, 

 not spotted; stem 2-2| in. long, 3-5 lines thick, solid, soft,, 

 fragile, whitish, fibrillosely squamulose. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) civilis, Fries, Icones, p. 38, t. 42 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 40. 



In pine woods. 



Stem solid, soft inside, fragile, narrowed upwards from 

 the incrassated base, 2 in. and more long, fibrillose or 



