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distant, whitish, thin, dull clay color especially where bruised; spores 
white, smooth, oval to broadly subelliptical, 5-7 X3 .5-5 #; cystidia none; 
stems subbulbous with a bulb like that of Lepiota lenticularis, fibrous 
id, sordid white, becoming in age where handled dull clay color; 
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striate, so 
Fic. 2.—Photomicrograph of spores of Tricholoma venenatum; Zeiss ocular 
No. 18, objective 3™™; object 370™™ from sensitive plate. 
odor and taste mild.—No. 22573 C. U. Herb., from Dr. O. E. FISCHER, 
Detroit, Mich., received August 29, 1908. 
(Sporophoro albo, leniter sordide luteo, 4-8°™ longo, pileo 4-7°™ lato, stipite 
I-1.5°™ crasso; pileo convexo-expanso, subumbonato, squamulis minutis ob- 
ducto; lamellis adnexis, late sinuatis, tactu sordide luteis; sporis hyalinis, glabris, 
Ovatis vel subellipsoideis, 5-7 3-5-5 #5 stipite subbulbo, fibroso-striato, tactu 
sordide luteo.) 
Gro. F. Atkinson, Department oj Botany, Cornell University. 
