TKICHOLOMA. 215 



squamulose, whitish. Pileus truly fleshy, very soft and 

 fragile, convex then plane, obtuse, 3 in. broad, even, very 

 glabrous, almost- viscid when moist, gilvous then becoming 

 pale, not becoming discoloured, never virgate, disc darker, 

 pellicle separable. Flesh spongy, whitish. Gills deeply 

 sinuate, almost free, crowded, 3 lines broad, very soft, white 

 then pallid or yellowish. Inodorous. Tricholoma militare 

 differs in the strong smell, margin of pileus at first involute 

 and pruinose, gills spotted. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma duracinum. Cooke. 



Pileus 2-2| in. across, disc very fleshy, margin thin, flesh 

 nearly white, firm ; convex, broadly gibbous, dry, smooth, 

 shining, grey with an olive tinge, margin incurved ; gills 

 emarginate, 1 line broad, arcuate, crowded, grey ; stem 

 about 2 in. long, 1 in. thick near the base, attenuated 

 upwards, striate below, reticulately squamose above, paler 

 than the pileus, or greyish-white, solid. 



Agaricus ( Tricholoma) duracinus, Cooke, Grev., xii. p. 41 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 640. 



On the ground under cedars. 



Pileus 3 in. diameter, stem 3 in. long, 1^ in. thick at the 

 base, nearly an inch at the apex. Fleshy disc nearly an inch 

 thick. Gills little more than a line broad. Upper part of 

 the stem minutely squamose in a peculiar reticulated manner. 

 Whole fungus cinereous and firm. (Cooke.) 



Tricholoma personatum. Fr. 



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

 convex then expanded, regular, glabrous, moist, margin 

 slightly projecting beyond the gills, at first incurved and 

 pruinosely downy, yellowish tan-colour, sometimes greyish 

 or with a lilac tinge; gills rounded behind and almost free, 

 2 lines broad, crowded, violet then dingy ; stem 2 in. long, 

 |-| in. thick, rather bulbous, downy, coloured like the 

 pileus, often with a violet tinge, solid; spores elliptical, 

 8-10 x 5-6 p. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) personatus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. 

 p. 50 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 41 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 66. 



In pastures, woods, &c. 



Allied to T. nudum, but differs in the downy margin of the 

 pileus, downy stem, and thick flesh of pileus. 



