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pes-caprae, Fr. P. 2 5 cm. conical then exp. umb. unequal, 

 greyish brown, glabrous ; g. broad, greyish white ; s. 6 7 cm. naked, 

 white ; sp. 8 x 5. 



var. multiforme, Schaeff. P. irreg., caespitose, smaller than 

 type. 



VI. SPONGIOSA. Pileus compact then spongy, obtuse, 

 even, glabrous, not hygrophanous. 



* Gills not discoloured. 



Schumacher!, Fr. P. 67 cm. exp. obtuse, livid grey, even, 

 moist, edge beyond gills incurved ; g. narrow, crowded, pure white ; 

 s. 6 8 cm. white, solid, fibrillosely-striate ; sp. - - . 



[amicus, Fr. P. fuscous ; g. distant, white ; s. bulbous, solid, 

 white. 



patulum, Fr. P. 5 8 cm. plane, obtuse, wavy, even, glabrous, 

 pale grey or pallid ; g. sides veined, pallid ; s. elastic, equal, glabrous, 

 5 8 cm. ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



circumtectum, Cke. and Mass. P. 5 8 cm. dry, obt. or subumb. 

 wavy, margin incurved, downy, greenish olive then tan ; g. white ; s. 

 3 4 cm. whitish, striate, base pointed ; sp. subgl. 4 5. 



[maluvium, Fr. P. cam pan. -con vex, obtuse, glabrous, greenish; 

 g. rounded, crowded, pallid ; s. solid, firm, elastic. 



[cpnglobatum, Vit. Densely clustered. P. unequal, even, edge 

 thin, inflexed, somewhat pruinose, blackish fuscous ; g. free ; s. steins 

 solid, ventricose, subtomentose, springing densely from a common 

 tuber. 



arcuatum. Bull. P. 5 8 cm. brownish white then tan, exp. margin 

 incurved, glabrous, flesh-coloured ; g. arcuate, crowded, white ; s. 

 4 6 cm. solid, fibrilloso-squamulose, pale brown, base darker, bul- 

 bous; sp. - . 



Differs from T. panaeolum in having white gills, and from 

 T. melaleucum in having coloured flesh. 



var. cognatum, Bull. Larger. Gilvous outside and inside or 

 dingy tan ; p. obtuse, discoid ; g. tan. 



oreinum, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. soon plane, obtuse, glabrous, fuscous, 

 even ; g. rounded, free, white ; s. solid, short, 2 3 cm. whitish, apex 

 white squamulose ; sp. - . 



Separated from T. humile by the gills projecting beyond the 

 margin of pileus. 



album, Schaeff. Entirely white, taste acrid. P. 6 9 cm. convex 

 then depr. even, glabrous, dry, disc sometimes tinged yellow ; g. 

 rather crowded ; s. 6 8 cm. narrowed upwards, solid, elastic ; sp. 

 56 x 3. 



var. caesariatum, Fr. P. white or yellowish, exp. fibrillosely 

 silky, then glabrous ; s. slender, fragile, apex rather mealy ; g. nearly 

 free. 



