Iieucosporee 



downy at the apex. Gills rounded or emarginato-adnexed, with a some- 

 what decurrent tooth and when old sinuato-decurrent, crowded, ventri- 

 cose, 2-3 lines broad, whitish. Fries. 



Odor pleasant, of new meal. Often forming large rings or clusters. 

 A whitish form must not be confounded with T. albellus. 



Spores I3XH/X, W.G.S.; 13-14x8-9/1* Massee; 13x10^ Cooke. 



Angora, Philadelphia. Chester and Lebanon county, Pa. Mcllvaine. 



Fair. 



** Gills becoming reddish or smoky-gray. 



T. tigl'i'num Schaeff. spotted like a tiger. Pileus 2 in. broad, pal- 

 lid-brown, variegated with crowded and darker dingy-brown spots, com- 

 pactly fleshy, convex then expanded, obtuse, repand. Flesh thick, 

 firm, white, unchangeable, but thin at the involute margin. Stem I in. 

 long and thick, very compact, solid, pruinate, white. Gills rounded 

 behind, at length decurrent with a tooth, crowded, narrow, white, at 

 length darker. 



Solitary or cespitose. Very distinguished, obese, and without any 

 marked smell of new meal. In fir woods and open grassy ground. 

 Rare. June to July. Stevenson. 



Edible, Cooke, Fries. 



T. albel'lum Fr. albus, white. Pileus about 3 in. broad, becom- 

 ing pale-white, passing into gray when dry, fleshy, thick at the disk, 

 thinner at the sides, conical tJien convex, gibbous when expanded, when 

 in vigor moist on the surface, spotted (mottled) as with scales, the thin 

 margin naked. Flesh soft, floccose, white, unchangeable. Stem curt, 

 i , 1 2 2 in. long, i in. thick at the base, reaching % in. toward the apex, 

 solid, fleshy-compact, ovato-bulbous (conical to the middle, cylindrical 

 above the middle), fibrillose-striate, white. Gills very much attenuated 

 behind, not emarginate, becoming broad in front, very crowded, quite 

 entire, white. Fries. 



Spores elliptical, 67x441 Massee; ovoid, 3/* W.G.S.; ovoid, 3/u. 

 Cooke . 



Pileus not becoming yellow. Odor weak when fresh, taste pleasant, 

 almost that of cooked flesh. There are two forms: one larger, solitary, 

 another smaller, connato-cespitose, quite as in A. albellus Sow. It is 

 often confounded with smaller forms of A. gambosus. Stevenson. 



North Carolina, Curtis. Damp woods. Edible. 



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