196 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



About the size of the typical form ; pileus pale grey, 

 covered with small black scales ; gills emarginate, whitish. 

 On the ground. 



III. EIGIDA. 



* Gills white or pallid, not spotted. 



Tricholoma macrorhizum. Lasch. 



Smell strong. Pilens 6-8 in. across, flesh thick, fiim, 

 white, becoming tinged with yellow when broken ; convex 

 then expanded and often more or less depressed at the disc, 

 glabrous and even at first, then becoming cracked in an 

 areolate manner, ochraceous, darker when old ; gills deeply 

 emarginate, almost free, hardly crowded, narrowed towards 

 the front, 4-9 lines broad, pallid ; stem solid, stoiit, ventri- 

 cose, 2-3 in. long, 2 in. thick, very minutely granulated, 

 whitish, ochraceous downwards, and continued downwards 

 as a stout, elongated, rooting base ; spores irregularly 

 globose, 5-6 fj, diameter. 



Agaricus macrorhizus, Lasch, in Linnea, no. 240 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 32. 



Among grass under oaks, &c. 



Smell strong, resembling that of Tricholoma mlfureum. 

 (Schulzer.) 



The figure in Cooke's Illustrations, pi. 278, cannot, I 

 think, possibly be the present species, although it is called 

 so ; the gills are 1 line broad, somewhat decurrent, not at all 

 sinuate or emarginate ; what it does in reality represent, I 

 do not know. 



Tricholoma saponaceum. Tr. 



Strong-scented, firm. Pileus 2-4 in. across, fiesh thick, 

 reddish when broken or sometimes when intact ; convex 

 then expanded, obtuse, often irregular, diy, glabrous, at 

 length cracked into squamules or punctate, livid-brown 

 often with a tinge of olive ; margin naked at first ; gills 

 unoinati-ly emarginate, 2 lines broad, thin, distant, quite 

 entire, white then pallid with a tinge of green ; stem 2—4 in. 

 long, about ^ in. thick, whitish, glabrous, fibrillose, or 



