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III. RiGiDA. — Cuticle o/2nleus rigid, j^uiictato-granulate or 

 broken into short squamules m drying. 



* Gills iv/iite or becoming pale, not rufescent or becoming 

 cinereous or spottedj. 



97. A. (Tricholoma) macrorhizus, Lasch ; pileus 8 in. 

 ochraceous, compact, even, smooth, then broken up in a tessel- 

 lated manner ; stem solid, stout, whitish, then ochraceous, 

 delicately granulated ; root thick, fleshy, blunt ; gills 

 emarginate, pallid. 



On the ground. King's Lynn. Odour very powerful. 



98. A. (Tricholoma) saponaceus, Fr. (p. 101) ; 2-4 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



Var. squamosus. Cke. : stem s^qnamose. 



99. A. (Tricholoma) meleagris, Soto. (p. 101). Now 

 placed in Lepiota, No. 29. 



100. A. (Tricholoma) cartilaginous, Btd/. (p. 101) ; 

 2-3 in. 



101. A. (Tricholoma) loricatus, Fr. ; pileus 1-2 in., 

 livid-fuscous or umber, paler at margin, slightly fleshy, 

 undulated or sinuato-lobed, moist, smooth, punctato- 

 rugulose under a lens, clothed with a thick, horny, fuscous 

 cuticle ; stem fleshy-fibrous, tough, somewhat hollow, twisted, 

 irregular, rooted, brick-fuscous or fibrilloso-striate under a 

 lens; gills free, separable from the hymenophore, crowded, 

 ventricose, entire, whitish-straw colour. 



In mixed woods. Glamis. Odour strong, unpleasant. 



102. A. (Tricholoma) atrocinereus, Pe7's. ; pileus 1^ in., 

 cinereous, the prominent disc darker, fleshy, at first even, 

 then rimosely incised, revolute at margin, fragile ; stem 

 stufled, internally soft, hyaline when moist, equal, slightly 

 striate ; gills free, or decurrent with a tooth or arcuato- 

 aduexed, ventricose, thin, crowded, hyaline, white. 



