TEICHOLOMA. 189 



pale yellowish, ground-colour, margin naked ; gills rounded 

 behind and emarginate, crowded, thin, margin always quite- 

 entire, acute, yellowish-white like the remainder of the gill ;. 

 stem stuffed, rather hard and tough, 2-3 in. long, ^ in. thick,, 

 almost equal, curved, sometimes bulbous, yellowish-white, 

 either variegated with reddish down, or almost naked, 

 apex very indistinctly whitish pruinose, spores subglobose, 

 5-7 X 4-5 IX.. 



Agaricus variegatus, Scop., Cam., p. 434; Cke., Illustr., 

 t. 642, Cke., Hdbk., p. 642 (very small). 



On rotten wood. 



Usually mixed up with T. rutilans, which the present 

 closely resembles, differs in being usually smaller, paler, 

 less showy, and especially in the pale yellow flesh. Fries 

 says that he has not met the true T. rutilans growing on. 

 wood. 



Tricholoma luridum. ¥i. 



Smell like fresh meal, taste mild, Pileus 1^-2 in. across, 

 flesh rather thin, convex then plane, obtuse, rather wavy, 

 deformed, quite dry, cuticle readily separating in fibrils, 

 cracked and incised (as in Inocybe rimosa), yellowish- 

 grey, sometimes yellow, never rufescent; gills emarginate, 

 broad, closely crowded, watery white; stem solid or stuffed, 

 2-3 in. long. |-] in. thick, unequal, glabrous, white ; spore& 

 5-0 X 3-4 /I. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma') luridum. Fries, Epicr., p. 31; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 29 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 214. 



In dry pine woods, &c. 



More or less resembling T. saponaceum, T. porterdomm, and 

 others, but clearly distinguished by the smell resembling^ 

 new meal ; flesh of pileus and stem fibrous, soft ; pallid 

 white, never reddish. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma guttatum. Schaeff. 

 Smell and taste bitter, somewhat acrid. Pileus 2J-5 in. 

 across, 'flesh thick, white; convex then expanded, cinnamon 

 or with a pinkish tinge,' becoming broken up into granulose- 

 or floccose innate scales ; margin remotely sulcate, incurved 

 and with white floccose down at first; gills emarginate,. 

 with a decurrent line down the stem, 1^ line broad, very 



