Tricholoma 



AGARICACE/E 



The species, except 91, 98 and 149, grow on the ground, the 

 larger usually grow in upland woods, the smaller in pastures. Mostly 

 autumnal ; some late ; section Guttata is usually vernal. Many have 

 -a pleasant odour of meal, a few have a disagreeable odour ; some 

 are edible, a few suspicious or poisonous. Species 73 152 



a. 



Fig. 15. Section of Tricholoma personatum Quel. 



One-third natural size. 



The separation of the stem from the hymenophore is 

 shown at A. 



Pileus viscid when damp, pubescent, fibrillose or scaly, not 

 scaly- torn. Stem fibrillose. Flesh, except 77, not hygro- 

 phanous. 



Limacincz. Pileus fleshy. Stem solid, except 73a, 76, and 79. 

 Gills not changing colour or becoming rufescent. 73 79 



Gills changing colour usually to rufescent, commonly red- 

 spotted. 8089 



Genuine. Pileus torn into scales or fibrils, not viscid or 

 hygrophanous, moist in 94. Taste sometimes bitter and 

 disagreeable. Odour, except 93, generally not unpleasant 

 or none. 



Gills, except 94, not changing colour, or becoming rufous or 

 black-spotted. 9095 



Gills rufescent or becoming grey, usually marked with rufous 

 or blackish spots. 96 101 



Rigidcz. Pileus, except 106, punctato-granulate or broken up 

 into smooth squamules, not viscid, scaly-floccose or fibril- 

 lose. Flesh in stout species cartilaginous-hard, in thin species 

 fragile. Odour of the majority of the species unpleasant. 



Gills unchanging white or becoming hyaline-whitish, except 

 103, which often becomes reddish. 102 108 



Gills changing colour, rufescent, or becoming ashy or spotted. 



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