462 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
center fleshy, thin toward the margin, plane or subrepand, minutely 
scaly with fibrous scales, subtomentose area over center, surface pale buff 
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~Tricholoma venenatum 
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to pale clay color, the scales possessing the darker color, under the lens 
some of them appear nearly black; gills adnexed, broadly sinuate, sub- 
