216 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Gregarious, frequently in large rings. Pilens 2-6 in. 

 broad, fleshy, firm, pale bistre or purple lilac, occasionally 

 violet, convex, obtuse, very smooth and shining as if oiled 

 but not viscid, margin involute, pulverulento-tomentose. 

 Gills rounded, free, not distant, narrow in front, paler than 

 the pileus, sometimes violet, turning to a dirty flesh-colour, 

 especially when bruised. Stem 1-3 in. high, f of an in. 

 thick, firm, bulbous, solid, mottled within towards the apex 

 with watery spots ; clothed more or less with villous 

 fibrillae, tinged with violet. Odour like that of A. oreades, 

 but rather overpowering, taste pleasant. Sold, according to 

 Sowerby, in Covent Garden Market under the name of 

 Blewitts. (Berk.) 



Tricholoma nudum. Bull. 



Whole fungus tinted violet at first. Pileus 2-2| in. 

 -across, convex then more or less depressed and often wavy, 

 becoming pale, silky and shining when diy, flesh very thin 

 except at the disc, tinted pale lilac, margin persistently 

 incurved, naked; gills rather crowded, narrow, 23 lines 

 broad, narrowest behind and subdecurrent, intermediate 

 ones numerous, bright violet when young, brownish-lilac 

 when old; stem 2-3 in. long, up to ^ in thick, subeqnal, 

 elastic, stuffed, longitudinally fibrillose, slightly powdered 

 with a white bloom ; spores elliptical, 7 x 3 5 p,. 



Agaricus nudus, Bulliard, t. 439 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 41 ; 

 Berk., Outlines, t. 4, f. 7. (It is doubtful whether Cke., 

 Illustr., t. 67 is the right species ; it is certainly too robust 

 and yellow in the pileus for the typical form.) 



On the ground among leaves, &c, Known from Tricholoma 

 -sordida, which the present species somewhat resembles, by the 

 perfectly even, naked, incurved margin of the pileus. 



Pileus about 2 in. broad, thin, obtuse, plane or subde- 

 pressed, at first amethyst-coloured, but changing to a pinky 

 rufous ; margin involute. Gills of the same colour as the 

 pileus, rounded behind though sometimes decurrenti-adnate, 

 connected and traversed by veins. Stem 2 in. high, 3-4 

 lines thick, stuffed with spongy fibres, subequal, at first 

 fibrillose, at length nearly smooth, more or less of the colour 

 of the pileus. (Berk.) 



Altogether more slender than T. personatum, becoming 



