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white, but its taste is unpleasant. Tbe gills are closely placed, 

 wide in the middle, excavated at the stem end, where there is a 

 slight prolongation running down on the stem and giving its top 

 a striated appearance. Their color is white and unchangeable. 

 The stem is smooth or slightly fibrillose, hollow but with a small 

 cavity and white. There is a rootlike prolongation at the base, 

 which tapers downward and penetrates the earth. 



The cap is 2-3 inches broad; the stem 1.5-4 inches long, 3-5 

 lines thick. The unpleasant flavor is lost in cooking. 



Tricholoma silvaticum Pk. 

 WOOD TRICHOLOMA 



PLATE 82, FIG. 1-6 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, dry, glabrous, subumbonate, 

 whitish; lamellae broad, ventricose, subdistant, adnexed, white; 

 stem equal or nearly so, glabrous, solid, white; spores elliptic 

 .00045-.0005 of an inch long, .00025-.0003 broad. 



The silvan tricholoma is a small, well formed mushroom, grow- 

 ing among mosses or fallen leaves in woods. Its cap is convex or 

 nearly plane with decurved margin. It is generally crowned with 

 a broad, slightly elevated umbo, and is smooth, dry and whitish. 

 The flesh is thin and white, the taste farinaceous. The gills are 

 broad with broad interspaces. They are deeply notched next the 

 stem and white. The stem is equal in diameter in all its parts 

 or sometimes slightly tapering upward. It is smooth or ob- 

 scurely fibrillose, slightly mealy or pruinose at the top, solid, firm 

 and white. 



The cap is 1-1.5 inches broad ; the stem 1-2 inches long, 2-4 

 lines thick. This species has been found by me in North Elba 

 only. It occurs in September. It may be separated from the 

 white cap tricholoma, T. leucocephalum, and from the 

 disagreeable tricholoma, T. i n a m o e n u m, by the absence of 

 any distinct odor and by the color of its cap, which is not pure 

 white, as in these species but a creamy white or pale buff. 



Hygrophorus pudorinus Fr. 

 BLUSHING HYGROPHORUS 



PLATE 83, FIG. 1-6 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex becoming nearly plane, glabrous, 

 viscid when moist, pinkish buff, flesh white, taste mild; lamellae 



