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Tricholoma panaeolnm Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 45. 1872. 
Gyrophila nimbata Quel. FI. Myc. Fr. 271. 1888. 
Rhodopaxilliis panaeolus Maire, Ann. Myc. ii : 338. 1913. 
Pileus fleshy, convex to expanded, gibbous, sometimes eccentric, 
cespitose, 4-9 cm. broad ; surface whitish-gray, grayish-variegated 
and dull-flesh-colored when young; context gray, odor strong, 
farinaceous-rancid, taste mild ; lamellae mostly crowded, some- 
times narrow and sometimes broad, easily separable from the hy- 
menophore, sinuate-uncinate, sometimes decurrent, from whitish- 
gray to lurid-flesh-colored or rufescent ; spores ellipsoid, slightly 
tuberculose, hyaline, dull-rosy in mass, 5.5-6 X 3-5 /«■ ; stipe solid, 
gray to grayish-fuscous within, subequal, fibrillose,subfurfuraceous 
at the apex, 2-6 cm. long, 5-13 mm. thick. 
Type locality: Switzerland. 
Habitat : In grassy places in the open or near woods ; rarely in 
woods. 
Distribution: New York; also in Europe. 
Illustration : Fries, Ic. Hymen, pi. jd, f. 2. 
New Yobk Botanical Garden. 
