30 AGARICACE^L Tricholoma 



69. A. mellea Quel. (from the honey-coloured pileus ; mel, honey) a be. 

 P. smoky yellow-olivaceous, usually dark-scurfy or squamulose ; 



marg. striate. St. often sulphur-yellow at base. A. usually 

 large and white-floccose, sometimes small or absent. G. 

 usually yellowish or pale salmon. 



Solitary, gregarious, or caespitose. Taste acrid and disagreeable ; odour 

 strong, foxy. Sold as an esculent in Continental markets ; said by Mrs. 

 Hussey to be poisonous. On or near stumps, tree-roots or root-fibres, 

 squared timber. July-Nov. 4^ X 5 X f in. Extremely variable. Com- 

 pare 222. Collybia tabesceno Sacc. is a ringless form. 



Var. versieolor W. G. Sm., Agaricus versicolor With, (from the 

 change of colour in the stem and gills). 



St. bulbous, white then brown. G. yellow-white, then deep red- 

 brown. 



Amongst grass. July. 1-4 x 2 X \ in. 



Var. larieina W. G. Sm. ; Agarictis laricinus Bolt. 



P. flesh-colour, glabrous ; marg. smooth. G. white. On larch. 

 69a. A. denigrata Gill, (from the very dark or blackish pileus; 

 denigro, to colour black) a. 



P. subviscid, guttato-punctate ; marg. even. St. solid, pallid- 

 fuscous, whitish above. A. superior, entire fugitive, white. 

 G. pale brown, becoming darker. 



Solitary or gregarious. On the ground, damp, shady places, bases of 

 trunks. 2^ X 2\ X in. Sometimes confused with 560, which has 

 brown, not white spores. 



70. A. citri Gill, (from the citron-colour of pileus) a b. 



P. subumbonate, smooth, sulphur-yellow ; marg. crenulate, 



becoming white. St. whitish, reddish-brown below. 

 Caespitose. Odour of new meal. Stumps. Sept. 2 x 3 X T 3 5 in. 



71. A. subcava Gill, (from the partially hollow stem ; cavus, hollow) a. 



White. 



P. umbonate, thin ; mid. brownish. 

 Woods, pine. Nov. 2 X 3$ X ^ in. Allied to Lepiota. 



72. A. mueida Quel. (from the slimy pileus) a b c. White. 



P. hemispherical, radiato-wrinkled ; mid. sometimes faintly 



brownish. St. externally cartilaginous. G. broad, mucid. 

 On beeches. Aug.-Nov. 3$ X 6 x J in. 



VI. TRICHOLOMA Quel 



(From the hairy, silky, or downy covering of the pileus, best seen 



in young examples ; Gr. thrix, a hair, loma, a fringe.) 

 Veil universal, imperfect, manifest in scales, flocci, fibrils or 

 down, which adhere to the margin of the pileus in infancy, sometimes 

 obsolete or nearly so. Hymenophore confluent and homogeneous 

 with the fleshy stem. Pileus usually convex and fleshy, never 

 umbilicate. Stem central, fleshy, simple, with cartilaginous bark. 

 Gills sinuate, sometimes separating from the hymeno-phore. 

 (Fig. 15.) 



