Leucosporae 



taste mild. Gills close, emarginate, thin, white. Stem stout, solid, Trichoioma. 

 unequal, nearly bare, white. Spores 7-8x4. 5/x. 



The species is very variable and the following varieties have been de- 

 scribed : 



Var. A. Pileus nearly always repand or lobed, at first bare, even, 

 at length cracked-scaly, often reddish spotted, the margin when young 

 indexed, tomentose. Stem obese, even, unequal, swollen, an inch thick. 

 The typical form. 



Birch wood among mosses. 



Var. B. Pileus subflexuous, silky-fibrillose, at length scaly, some- 

 times dingy-brown spotted, the margin scarcely tomentose. Stem 

 longer, equal or slightly narrowed at the base. 



Bushy places. Intermediate between A and C. 



Var. C. PileilS regular, flattened, evidently fibrillose, sometimes 

 spotted with blue, four inches broad. Stem equal, cylindrical, fibrillosc- 

 striate, four inches long. 



Beech woods. A showy variety so diverse from variety A that it 

 might be regarded as a distinct species, did not variety B connect them, 

 and so much resemble both that it might with equal propriety be re- 

 ferred to either. 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad. Stem 1-4 in. long, 3-12 lines thick. 



Woods and pastures. Albany county, N. Y. 



It may be distinguished from T. album by its mild taste. It is re- 

 corded as edible. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Edible, Curtis, Cooke, Stevenson. 



This much varied Trichoioma is as varied in its habitat. I have 

 found it on vacant lots in Philadelphia, in mixed woods at Devon, Pa., 

 and in the forests of the West Virginia mountains, and eaten it since 

 1881. 



It cooks readily and is of mild, agreeable flavor. 



T. ru'tilans Schaeff. rutilo, to be reddish. Pileus fleshy, campanu- 

 late becoming plane, dry, at first covered with a dark-red or purplish 

 tomentum then somewhat scaly, the margin thin, at first involute. Flesh 

 yellow. Gills crowded, rounded, yellow, thickened and down}' on the edge. 

 Stem somewhat hollow, nearly equal or slightly thickened or bulbous at 

 the base, soft, pale-yellow variegated with red or purplish floccose scales. 

 Spores 6.5-8x6.5^. 



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