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terreum, Schaeff. P. 5 8 cm. exp. umb. bluish grey with minute 

 squamules; g. greyish, sinuate; s. whitish, fibrillose ; sp. subgl. 5 6. 



var. orirubens, Q. Edge of g. reddish. 



var. atrosquamosum, Chev. P. grey with small black scales, g. 

 whitish. 



var. argyraceum, Bull. Entirely pure white, or p. greyish. 



var. chrysites, Jungh. P. tinged yellowish or greenish. 



[squarrulosum, Bres. P. convex then exp. umb. dry, fuscous 

 then lurid tan, centre black, with black squamules, edge fibrillose, 

 exceeding gills; g. broad, crowded, whitish grey, reddish when 

 bruised ; s. colour of p. punctato-squamulose ; sp. 79 x 4 5. 



[triste, Fr. P. conic then exp. umb. fuscous, fibrillosely scaly ; 

 g. white then greyish ; s. fistulose, slender, floccose. 



III. RIGID A. Pellicle rigid, punctato-gr emulate, or 



broken up into glabrous fragments when dry. 

 * Gills white or pallid, not rufous or grey spotted. 



macrorhizum, Lasch. Smell strong. P. 10 20 cm. exp. ochra- 

 ceous, darker and cracked when old; g. almost free; s. 5 10 cm. 

 stout, ochraceous, rooting, solid, ventricose ; sp. subgl. 56. 



[compactum, Fr. P. soon plane, even, dry, glabrous, livid grey, 

 compact ; g. yellow ; s. solid, white. 



saponaceum, Fr. Smell strong. P. exp. obtuse, dry, livid, tinged 

 olive, glabrous then often squamulose or punctate, flesh reddish ; g. 

 pallid with greenish tinge ; s. 5 10 cm. whitish, somewhat rooting ; 

 sp. 5 x 4. 



var. atrovirens, P. thin, wavy, obscure green with crowded black 

 squamules. 



[Boudieri, Barla. P. exp. even, dry, satiny maroon or vinous with 

 coppery tint, then sooty brown with deeper granules at centre ; g. 

 tinged "green then ochre; s. subcylindrical, rather unequal, fibrillose, 

 whitish tinged red, then brownish-fawn ; flesh white then reddish. 



Differs from Trich. saponaceum in the copper coloured p. 



[miculatum, Fr. P. exp. obtuse, glabrous, granulated then 

 cracked, umber ; g. subadnate ; s. solid, fibrillosely floccose. 



cartilagineum, Bull. P. 5 9 cm. soon exp. and wavy, 

 margin persistently incurved, blackish, then broken up into small 

 black spots; g. crowded then greyish; s. 35 cm. glabrous, pure 

 white; sp. - . 



tenuiceps, Cke. and Mass. P. 5 8 cm., flesh very thin, obtuse, 

 dry, granular, dusky brown ; g. narrowed in front, white ; st. 5 8 cm. 

 ochraceous white, everywhere granular, base abrupt with cord-like 

 mycelium ; sp. subgl. G 7. 



loricatum, Fr. Smell strong. P. 2 5 cm. tough, convex, wavy, 

 rather viscid, brown, cuticle thick, tough, separable ; g. almost free, 

 pallid ; s. 5 7 cm. tough, often twisted, brownish red ; sp. - . 



atrocinereum, Pers. P. 3 5 cm. soon plane, grey, prominent 



