'208 FUNGUS-FLOItA. 



V. GUTTATA. 

 * Gills whitish. 



Tricholoma gambosum. Tr. 



"Smell resembling fresli meal. Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh, 

 "thick, soft, fragile, white ; hemispherical then convex, at 

 length expanded, obtuse, wavy, even, glabrous, but marked 

 -with drop-like spots, at length cracking, but not becoming 

 "truly broken up into squamules, pallid-tan, margin incurved 

 and downy at first; gills emarginate and adnexed, with a 

 somewhat decurrent tooth, sinuate and decurrent when old, 

 crowded, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, whitish ; stem 2-24^ in. 

 long, -1-1 in. thick, almost equal, base often curved and 

 ascending when growing in clusters, white, apex downy, 

 solid; spores elliptical, 13-14 x 8-9 /t. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) gamhosus, Fries., Epicr., p. 43; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 37 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 63. 



In pastures, &c. Spring. 



Often growing in circles, or tufted. Smell pleasant, like 

 "new meal. 



** Gills discoloured, rufous or smoJcy. 



Tricholoma amethystinum. Scop. 



Pileus 1-5—2 in. across, flesh thick, white ; convex then 

 •expanded and often wavy or with the margin slightly 

 niptumed, obtuse or with a trace of an umbo, glabrous, even, 

 :moist, livid and more or less spotted or stained with blue, 

 margin paler and wrinkled ; gills somewhat adnate, 1^ line 

 "broad, crowded, white then rufescent ; stem 1^-2 in. long, 

 5-5 lines thick, attenuated at the base, paler than the pileus, 

 solid, often slightly bent. 



Agaricus amethystinus, Scopoli, Cam., ii. p. 437 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 38 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 262. 



In pine woods. 



Pileus pale with a dingy olive tinge, and spotted with 

 ■clear blue. 



Tricholoma albellum. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh, thick at the disc, becoming thin 

 towards the margin, soft, white, unchangeable ; convex then 



