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trations, ^g. 926, T. Russula is represented with a bright red pileus, 

 and it has seemed best to refer our plant to that species. The disk 

 in it is often squamulose-dotted, rather than granulated. The 

 species is recorded edible, but I have not tested it. 



Tricholoma transmutans Pk. 



Changing Tricholoma 



(N. T. state Mus. Rep. 29, p. 38.) 



Pileus convex, nearly glabrous, viscid when moist, brownish, 

 reddish-brown or tawny -red, usually paler on the margin, flesh white, 

 taste and odor farinaceous; lamellae narrow, close, sometimes 

 branched, whitish or pale-yellowish, becoming dingy or reddish- 

 spotted when old ; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, glabrous 

 or slightly silky -fibrillose, stuffed or hollow, whitish, often marked 

 with reddish stains or becoming reddish-brown toward the base, 

 white within ; spores subglobose, .0002 in. broad. 



PHeus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 3 to 4 in. long, 3 to 6 lines 

 thick. 



Woods. Albany, Rensselaer and Essex counties. August to 

 September. 



The plants are often csespitose. The species is related to a group 

 of closely allied forms including T. fulvellum, T. albobrunneum, T. 

 ustale and T. pessundatum, from all of which it is distinguished by 

 its farinaceous odor. It is also related to T. flavobrunneum and T. 

 frumentaceum, which have a similar odor, but from which it differs 

 in its subglobose, smaller spores. I suspect that Agaricus fru- 

 mentaceus of Curtis' catalogue belongs to this species. Both the 

 pileus and stem, as well as the lamellae, are apt to assume darker 

 hues with age or in drying, and this character suggested the specific 

 name. The species is classed as edible. 



Tricholoma Peckii Howe. 

 Peck's Tricholoma 



(Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. vol. vl, p. 66.) 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, viscid when moist, squamulose, 

 tawny-red inclining to tawny-orange, flesh white, odor farinaceous ; 

 lamellae narrow, close, sometimes branched, white ; stem equal or 

 slightly thickened at the base, squamulose, white at the top, 

 elsewhere colored like the pileus ; spores minute, broadly elliptical 

 or subglobose, .00016 to .0002 in. long. 



Pileus 2 to*3 in. broad ; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 



