Agaricacese 



Trichoioma. Mixed woods. Suffolk county, N. Y. September. 



The plants referred to this species are not uncommon on Long Island, 

 growing on sandy soil in woods of oak and pine. They are usually 

 more or less irregular and the pileus becomes fragile. It is quite vari- 

 able in color, sometimes approaching a smoky-brown hue, again being 

 nearly white. The taste of the typical form is said to be bitter, but the 

 flavor of our plant is scarcely bitter. In other repects, however, it 

 agrees well with the description of the species. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



Spores 6/n W.G.S. 



Flesh is tender. Cooked, of good body and peculiar but pleasant 

 flavor. A valuable species, baked, scalloped, fried. 



T. terri'ferum Pk. terra, earth ; fero, to bear. Pileus broadly convex 

 or nearly plane, irregular, often wavy on the margin, glabrous, viscid, 

 pale-yellow, generally soiled with adhering particles of earth carried up 

 in its growth. Flesh white, with no decided odor. Gills thin, crowded, 

 slightly adnexed, white, not spotted or changeable. Stem equal, short 

 solid, white, floccose-squamulose at the apex. Spores minute, sub- 

 globose, 3/A. 



Pileus 3-4 in. broad. Stem 1-1.5 m - lng> 6-8 lines thick. 



Woods. Catskill mountains. September. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



Found in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. August to frost, 

 Mcllvaine. 



Not inviting, hard to clean, nevertheless edible and good. 



T. portento'sum Fr. portentosus, strange, monstrous. Pileus 3-5 in. 

 broad, sooty, livid, sometimes violaceous, fleshy, but thin in comparison 

 with the stoutness of the stem, convexo-plane, somewhat umbonate, 

 unequal and turned up, viscid, streaked with black lines (innate fibrils), 

 but otherwise even and smooth, the very thin margin naked. Flesh 

 not compact, white, fragile. Stem commonly 3 in. often 4-6 in long, 

 i in. thick, stout, solid, the whole remarkably fibrous-fleshy, somewhat 

 equal, naked, but fibrilloso-striate , white; the base, which is occasionally 

 attenuato-rooted, villous. Gills rounded, almost free, 3-4 lines to as 

 much as i in. broad, distant, white, but varying, becoming pale-gray 

 or yellow. Fries. 



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