T. rutilans Schaeff. Pileus dry, fleshy, covered at first with a dark red 
tomentum, which breaks up into scales; flesh yellow; gills crowded, 
yellow, villose on the edge; stem long, hollowish, yellow, with red 
scales. A well marked species. On stumps, etc., chiefly of pine. E. 
T. columbetta Fr. Dove color, (if the dove is white), fleshy, obtuse, 
rather flexuous, dry, becoming silky or squamulose; margin at first 
involute; flesh white; gills close, white; stem solid, unequal, white. 
Taste mild. E. 
T. imbricatum Fr. Pileus compact, obtuse, dry, innately squamulose, 
(reddish) brown, the thin margin at first slightly indexed and pubescent, 
then naked; gills slightly emarginate, white, becoming spotted or 
reddish; flesh white; stem solid, mealy white at the top, reddish brown 
below. Smell and taste mealv. E. 
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T. vciccinum Pers. Pileus fleshy, umbonate, dry, campanulate, then 
expanded, scaly, reddish brown, margin involute and tomentose; flesh 
white; gills adnexed, becoming reddish and spotted; stem hollow, covered 
with a layer of fibrils, whitish rufescent, naked at the apex. Taste farin¬ 
aceous, not agreeable. 
T. terreum Schaeff. Pileus fleshy, thin, soft, obtuse or umbonate, 
innately filbrillose or scaly, dull smoky, or ashy brown, or mouse color; 
flesh white or whitish; gills rather distant, adnexed, becoming eroded on 
the edge, white, becoming cinereous; stem variable, solid to hollow, 
fibrillose, white or whitish. Very variable. E. 
T. album Schaeff. Pileus fleshy, tough, sometimes becoming depressed, 
very dry, glabrous, white, sometimes yellowish at the disk, or wholly 
yellowish, margin involute at first; flesh white, gills emarginate, white ; 
stem solid, elastic, externally fibrous, white. Taste acrid or bitter. 
T. 'personatum Fr. Pileus compact, becoming soft, thick, becoming 
plane, regular, moist, glabrous, variable in color, but generally pallid or 
ashy with a violet or lilac tint, margin involute at first and villose- 
pruinose; flesh whitish; gills broad, crowded, rounded near the stem, 
free violaceous or dingy ; stem variable, solid, fibrillose villose-pruinose, 
colored like the pileus; spores sordid-white. Common, often very 
large. E. 
T. nudum Bull. Pileus fleshy, comparatively thin, violaceous, then pale 
or brownish ; margin inflexed, naked ; flesh pliant, colored ; stem stuffed, 
elastic, mealy at the top, becoming pale; gills becoming decurrent, 
violaceous at first. E. 
T. sordidum Fr. Pileus thin, sometimes with a small umbo, finally 
depressed, often misshapen, glabrous, hygrophanous, brown with a 
violaceous or reddish tint, when moist striatulate on the margin, 
sordid when dry; flesh white; gills thin, violaceous or smoky; stem 
solid or stuffed, striate, colored like the pileus, white within. Grows 
in the spring. 
Hygrophorus. This genus is one of those which differ from proper 
agarics by the fact that the substance of the cap descends, as a trama, 
between the gill plates. The gills are waxy, and not membranaceous, 
and contain a watery juice. Many of the species are edible; none are 
known to be poisonous, although H. conicus has that reputation. 
The following are among the familiar species : 
II. chrysodon Fr. Pileus not thick, i , -2 / wide, viscid when moist, white, 
often yellow at the disk, margin dotted with yellowish scales, which 
appear also on the stem ; gills slightly arcuate [i. e. the outline in the 
form of a bow], decurrent, distant, white, sometimes with a faint pink 
tinge; stem 2 , -3 / high, slightly thinner below, solid, white. 
II eburtieus Fr. Shining white, fleshy, or thin, somewhat repand, even 
very glutinous in wet weather, margin soon naked; gills decurrent, 
distant, veined at the base, broad, entire, straight; stem variable in 
length, becoming hollow, glutinous, rough at the apex with scaly dots. E. 
