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bluish-violet ; margiu wrinkletl, paler ; stem solid, curt, 

 attenuated at base ; gills somewhat adnate, crowded, white, 

 then rufesceut. 



In pine woods. Glamis. Sept. 



121. A. (Tricholoma) tigrinus, Schaf. ; pileus 2 in., 

 pallid brown, variegated with darker spots, fleshy, at length 

 repand ; flesh thick, firm, white, thin at invohite margin ; 

 stem compact, solid, obese, pruinate, white ; gills rounded 

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

 white, at length darker. 



Under firs and on open grassy ground. June to July. 



122. A. (Tricholoma) pes-caprse, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, 

 conical then expanded, umbonate, fragile, unequal, grey 

 then dusky, smooth, margin cracked, at length splitting ; 

 stem solid, equal or attenuated at base, smooth ; gills 

 emarginate, smooth, crowded, then rather distant, white, 

 then cinereous. 



Var. multiformis, Schceff. ; ctespitose, sometimes con- 

 fluent at base, margin involute, entire. 

 Under trees. Kew. 



VI. Spongiosa. — Pileus compact, then spongy, obtuse, even, smooth, 

 not hyijrophcmous ; gills spuriously {sinuately) decurrent. 

 Appearing late in the year, growing in troops. 



* Gills not changing colour. 



123. A. (Tricholoma) Schumacheri, Fr. ; pileus 3 in., 

 cinereous-livid, fleshy, compact, convex, then flattened, 

 regular, well-formed, smooth, moist in rainy weather, 

 margin (which exceeds the gills) inflexed ; flesh white ; 

 stem solid, stout, equal, villous and sometimes ventricoso- 

 bulbous at base, slightly striate, white, externally fibrous ; 

 gills emarginate, plane, crowded, white. 



