POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 99 



SULPHURY MUSHROOM. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma) sulphureus. 



(Plate XIII. Fig. 2.) 



This yellow Agaric is by no means 

 common, but it is very striking, and not 

 readily overlooked. It is one of the wliite- 

 spored series, notwithstanding the coloured 

 gills. It is a woodland species, and grows 

 upon the ground, either solitary or two or 

 three in company. The pileus is from one to 

 two or three inches broad, fleshy and convex, 

 at length somewhat depressed, rather silky 

 at first, but soon smooth, of a sulphury 

 yellow colour, sometimes dingy or inclined 

 to rufous. The stem is from two to three 

 inches long, and of the same colour as the 

 pileus ; the gills are rather thick and distant, 

 bright yellow. The odour is strong, rather 

 stinking, and unpleasant to the taste. Some 

 have compared the scent to that of " gas-tar " 

 or creosote. It is hardly a species which 

 is liable to be confounded with anything 



