188 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



II. GENUINA. 



* Gills not discoloured nor spotted. 



i^^gyTricholoma ru tilans. Schaeff. 



Pileus 3-6 in. across, flesh thick, soft, deep yellow from 

 the earliest stage, becoming golden-yellow when broken; 

 semiovate, obtuse, and with the margin incurved when 

 young, entirely covered with a dense, uninterrupted coating 

 ■of dark purple or reddish-brown down ; when older becoming 

 "campanulate and often umbonate, purple, all one colour; 

 •when mature convex then expanded, often umbonate, the 

 cu ticle brok en up into small, innate flocose squamules, 

 yellow, v£(jiegated_with jurple ; always dry; gUls yellow 

 from the first, broadly adnexed, crowded, edge thickened, 

 -obtuse, floccose, often wavy ; thinner, broader, and less 

 -crowded wheii adult, edge deep yellow, sides paler ; 2-3 in. 

 long, I in. thick, fleshy, imperfectly hollow, soft, bulbous 

 when short, ventricose when elongated, yellow; variegated, 

 •€specially upwards, with purplish, floccos e squamu les ; spores 

 -subglobose, 5-6 /jl diameter. 



Agaricus rutilans, Schaeffer, t. 219 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 28 ; 

 -Cke., lUustr., pi. 89. 



Agaricus serratus, Bolton, t. 14. 



Agaricus xerampelinus. Sow., t. 31. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Inodorous. Dimensions very variable ; in large specimens, 

 ■usually caespitose, stem 1-2 in thick, pileus up to a span 

 broad, but usually much smaller. (Fries.) 



Commonly confounded with T. variegatum, from which it 

 •differs in the flesh being yellow from the first, and deeper 

 an colour; and more especially in the downy or floccose 

 -margin of the gills being deep yellow at maturity. In 

 T. variegatum the margin of the gills is quite entire. 



Tricholoma variegatum. Scop. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, fragile, flesh thickish, whitish at 



first, then pale yellow; expanded when adult, very obtuse 



or with a trace of an umbo ; more or less densely and entirely 



or in part covered with reddish-purple downy tufts on a 



