lo6 BRITISH FUXt;i 



T. horrible. — Cap convex, then expanded, densely covered with 

 dark brown squamules, becoming squarrose at the disc, the entire 

 cap tinged with })ink l^elow the squamules at maturity, 3-5 in. 

 across ; gills emarginate, crowded, whitish, tinged pink with age, 

 edge uneven ; stem white, hollow, smooth, base thickened, stout, 

 3-4 in. long (spores globose, 5 in. diam.). 



Known by every part, except outside of stem, becoming pinkish 

 with age, and by the presence of brown spots in flesh of stem and cap. 



Under beech trees. 



T. squarrulosum. — Cap fleshy, convex, then expanded, brown, 

 densely covered with blackish squamules ; gills sinuato-adnexed, 

 crowded, grey ; stem densely co\-ered with blackish brown squa- 

 mules. 



Under oaks and hazels. 



3. Skin of cap rigid, granulated or broken up into sniall squa unties 

 when dry, not viscid ; floccoscly scaly, not lorn into fibrils. Smell 

 often strong. 



* Gills white or pallid, not spotted. 



T. macrorhizum. — Smell strong, unpleasant. Cap convex, then 

 expanded or depressed, smooth, then cracking, ochraceous, darker 

 when old, 5-8 in. across ; gills almost free, broad, pallid ; stem 

 stout, ventricose, whitish, tinged ochraceous below, 2-3 in. long, 

 ending in a long, rooting base. 



Among grass under oaks, etc. 



T. saponaceum. — Strong scented. Cap convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, often irregular, dry, smooth or cracked, livid brown, often 

 with an olive tinge, 2-4 in. across ; gills thin, distant, pallid, with 

 a tinge of green ; stem whitish, smooth or squamulose, somewhat 

 rooting, 2-4 in. long. 



Smell soapy. Flesh turning reddish when broken. 



In woods. 



T. cartilagineum. — Cap convex, edge incurved, then expanded 

 and wavy, but edge persistently incurved, dry, densely covered 

 with minute black granules on a white ground, 2-3 1 in. across ; 

 gills crowded, white, then grey ; stem hollow, short and firm, pure 

 white, polished, 1-2 in. long. 



Cartilaginous when young; fragile when old. 



Among grass in pine woods. 



T. tenuiceps. — Flesh thin. Cap convex or slightl}' gibbous, dry, 

 granular, sooty Ijrown, 2-3 in. across ; gills ventricose, white ; 

 stem ochraceous-white, minutely granular, base with spreading, 

 cord-like mycelium. 



Solitary or in small clusters. 



Among grass under trees. 



T. loricatum. — Smell strong, unpleasant. Cap tough, campanu- 



