ities, and my own experience confirms their estimate, and leads 
me to consider it a first-class mushroom. 
I do not know of any dangerous species with which it can be 
compared, but there are other species that resemble it somewhat 
in color. Its spores are not a pure white, but rather whitish or 
dirty white in color. The gills are separable from the cap, espe- 
cially toward the stem. In England the plant has received the 
common name “Blewits,” and in France, “Blue-stem,” though 
its color can scarcely be called blue. 
Its smooth, almost shining, unbroken and unadorned epider- 
mis, and its peculiar lilac tints distinguish it from all other spe- 
cies of the T’richoloma here described. 
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