36 AGARIC ACE^i Trlcholoma 



99. T. inodermum Gill, (from the fibrils of the pileus ; Gr. is, inos, a 



nerve, derma, the skin) a b. 

 P. pink-buff; mid. brownish, brown-scaly. Sf. white, then 



partially reddish, mealy above. G. white, red-spotted when 



bruised. Flesh pale pink-buff. 

 Damp, dense pine-woods. 2f X 2j X \ in. Resembling 93. 



100. T. gausapatum Quel (from the shaggy pileus; gausapa, a 



shaggy woollen cloth) a b. 



P. bullate, obtuse, wavy, woolly-fibrillose, somewhat dark-ashy- 

 grey ; edge at first incurved, white-woolly. Sf. solid, white, 

 fibrillose. G. adnate, pale grey. 



Taste mild ; odour none. Woods ; grassy places. Sept.- Oct. 3X2x|in. 



101. T. terreum Quel. (from its earthy colour ; terra, the earth) a b c. 

 P. umbonate, dark purplish-grey or pale slate. Sf. grey, white- 



pruinose above. G. white to grey. 



Solitary, gregarious or csespitose. Taste slightly rancid ; odour none. 

 Woods, chiefly beech, pine ; common. Aug.-Nov. 3^ X 2 X f in. 

 Often becoming black in drying. Sometimes springing from rose- 

 coloured mycelium or from rhizomorphoid threads. Var. orirubens Mass. 

 G. red-edged. Var. argyraceum Mass. Wholly silvery -whitish. Var. 

 virescens W. G. Sm., Agaricus scalpturatus Fr. var. virescens Cooke. 

 Becoming yellowish-green. Var. atrosquamosum Mass. Black, scaly. Var. 

 chry sites Mass. Becoming yellow. 



lOla. T. squarrulosum Bres. (squarrulosus, scaly) a. 



P. becoming striato -hairy, fuscous to lurid tan; mid. black- 

 squamulose. St. broadly striato-rough, dark grey-umber on a 

 pale dull salmon ground. G. grey-white as in 101. 

 Under oaks, hazel. Sept. 3J X 3J X f in. 

 lOlb. T. horribile Rea (/wrribilis, rough) a. 



P. dark-fuscous-squamulose, the ground pink at maturity. Sf. 

 enlarged below, white, smooth, hollow. G. emarginate, crowded ; 

 marg. uneven, whitish, becoming pinkish. Flesh white, becom- 

 ing pinkish and fuscous-spotted. 

 Under beech. 4$ X 3 X I in. 



c. Rigida. 



102. T. maerorhizum Sacc. (Gr. makros, long, rhiza, a root) a b. 



P. smooth, then tessulato-cracked, ochreous-buff. St. whitish- 



ochreous. Flesh slightly yellowish. 

 Taste mushroom-like or unpleasant; odour strong like 113, cadaverous, like 



Liliunt auratum, like carrion or fetid-sweet, varying pleasant to unpleasant. 



Nov. 4j X 5 X ij in. Pileus sometimes 8 in. or more in diam. with a 



long rooting stem in proportion. 



103. T. saponaeeum Que'l. (from its soapy odour) a b c. 



P. smooth, then olive-brown scaly. St. pale yellowish-grey, often 

 minutely black scaly. G. distant, yellowish-grey-white. 



Woods, hedgesides, etc., amongst leaves; common. Aug.-Nov. 3^X2|xfin. 

 Often reddish when bruised. Must not be confounded with the scentless 

 112b. 



