212 I'UNC US-FLOEA. 



uniformly livid-grej', the extreme margin projecting beyond 

 the gills and incurved; gills emarginate, closely crowded, 

 plane, 3-4 lines broad, white ; stem solid, stout, 3-4 in. long, 

 up to ^ in. thick, equal, base downy, and sometimes ventri- 

 cosely bulbous, naked, slightly striate, white, fibrous outsider. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) Schumacheri, Bpicr., p. 45 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 38; Cke., lUustr., pi. 168. 



In back woods, &c. 



Stature of Tricholoma personatum, colour resembling: 

 Clitocybe nebularis. (Fries.) 



Tricholoma ciroumtectum. C. & M. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, white ; convex, dry, very 

 obtusely umbonate at first, or quite obtuse, rarely becoming 

 slightly depressed, margin incurved, downy, wavy ; often, 

 cracking a little when old, disc dingy pale tan or ochraceous, 

 greenish-olive towards the margin, at length altogether 

 pale tan ; gills slightly sinuate, adnexed, 1^-2 lines broad, 

 scarcely crowded, persistently white ; stem aboiit 1 in long, 

 ^-| in thick, usually more or less swollen near the base, but 

 always tapering more or less to a point at the extreme base, 

 striate, whitish, solid ; spores subglobose, 4-5 /j, diameter. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma') cireumteetus, Cooke & Massee; Cke,, 

 adbk., p. 382 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1182. 



On the ground under trees. 



A well-marked species, known by the pileus being dingy 

 -olive at first then tan-colour, the change starting at the 

 disc, downy margin of pileus, and pointed base of stem. 



Tricholoma arcuatum. Bull. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, soft, hygrophanous, 

 •1)rownish-white, at length usually tan-colour ; at first 

 compact, then very soft, convex then plane, obtuse, even, 

 ■jrlabrous, moist in rainy weather, blackish-umber or rufous- 

 'brown, becoming pale and discoloured with age ; gills 

 ■rounded behind, sinuate and with a decurrent tooth, arcuate, 

 at length plane, crowded, narrow, pure white; stem solid, 

 iirm, 1^ in long, ^ in. thick, incrassated below and more or 

 less bulbous, at first squamulosely fibrillose, then naked and 

 somewhat reticulated, pale brown, base blackish, spongy 

 vithin. 



