218 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



length slightly decurrent, closely crowded, quite entire, 

 plane, 2 lines broad, white then grey; stem 1-1-^ in long, 

 I in. thick, solid, tough, elastic, fibrous outside, spongy 

 within, glabrous, naked not polished, greyish-white ; spores 

 subglobose, 5-6 fi. diameter. 



Agaricus ( Tricholoma) panaeolus, Tries, Epicr., p. 49 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 42 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 97. 



On the ground. 



Small, but firm, tough, elastic, smell and taste not un- 

 pleasant ; colour of pileus sooty, and with a broken up 

 hloom on the surface. (Fries.) 



Colour of the pileus dingy or smoky-grey, the gills sepa- 

 rate readily from the pileus. (Cooke.) 



Tricholoma cnista. Fr. 



Pileus 2- 3 in. across, flesh rather thick, soft, white, 

 unchangeable; convex then plane, obtuse, even, glabrous, 

 moist, not viscid, pale tan or whitish, disc darker, margin 

 incurved, naked, even ; gills adnexed, rounded behind, 

 inclined to separate from the pileus, broad, crowded, 3 lines 

 broad, transversely veined, crisjied when dry, white, pallid- 

 yellow when bruised; stem 1^-2 in. long, 4 lines thick, 

 equal, even, frlabrous, white, tough, solid ; spores 9-10 X 4: f/,. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) cnista, Fries, Epicr., p. 60. 



Among jirass in open places, &c. 



Similar to T. panaeolwm, but white, not becoming grey; 

 smell resembling cooked flesh. Stem fleshy, 1^-2 in. long, 

 ^ in. thick, even. Pileus 2-3 in. across, white, somewhat 

 tan-colour, disc rather darker, flesh white. (Fries.) 



VII. HYGEOPHANA. 



* Gills whitish, not spotted. 



Tricholoma melaleucum. Pers. 

 Pileus 1^-3 in. across, flesh thin; convex then plane, 

 obsoletely umbonate, glabrous, moist, sooty brown, hygro- 

 phanous and passing through various shades of colour as it 

 dries, dingy tan when dry; gills adnexed and emarginate, 

 ventricose, crowded, white ; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-4 lines thick. 



