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110. T. tumidum Gill, (tumidus, swollen) a b.
P. irregular, often cracked, ashy-livid; mid. darker. St. often
swollen and attenuate below, white, often red-tinged within.
Taste and odour weak, not unpleasant. Woods, pine, moist places. Oct.-
Nov. 3Ì X 3 i X f in. Var. Keithii Sacc. (after the Rev. Dr. J. Keith)
the whole plant becomes partially rufescent.
111. T. murinaeeum Gill, (from its mouse-colour; mus, a mouse)
a b c. Ashy- or lilac-greyish.
P. cracked, streaked grey-silky-scaly; sc. sometimes blackish.
St. more or less scaly like P. G. grey.
Taste very disagreeable, bitter ; odour strong, unpleasant, sometimes nitrous.
Open woods and pastures ; rare. Aug.-Nov. 44 X 3 j x f in. Must not
be confounded with 1244.
111a. T. hordum Quél, (perhaps from hordeum, barley, on account
of the hard substance).
P. subumbonate, soon cracking, in dry weather squarrose, mouse-
grey ; mid. darker. St. glabrous, whitish, shaded greyish. G.
subdistant, white to greyish.
Taste mild ; odour none. Under beeches. X 4§ x | in.
112. T. virgatum Gill, (from the streaked pileus ; virga, a stripe) a c.
P. pale ashy-grey, finely-streaked black-fibrillose. St. subbullious.
G. crowded, becoming hoary. Flesh cinereous-whitish.
Usually solitary. Taste when young very bitter, becoming tasteless ; odour
usually none, sometimes sweet like melilot. Woods, mixed, oak, pine.
Aug.-Oct. 3i X 3t X 4 in.
112a. T. elytroides Karst, (from the appearance of the pileus, like
the wing-cases of certain beetles ; Gr. elutron, a beetle’s wing-
case, eidos, appearance) a b.
P. expanded, obtuse, scabrous, with minute linear black-brown
scales on a yellowish or pale brown ground, caused by the
cracking of the cuticle. St. soft, densely browmish-fibrillose.
G. ashy-grey or brownish-white. Flesh white.
Odour faint of new meal. Oct. 34 X 3i X f in. Compare 104.
112b. T. opieum Gill, {opicus, clownish) a.
P. somewhat thin, obtusely umbonate, even, soon squamulose, at
length unusually upturned and split, very dry, becoming minutely
squamulose, grey. St. stuffed, fibrillose, becoming almost
glabrous, pallid to greyish. G. arcuato-adfixed, somewhat
thick, hoary. Flesh greyish.
Odour none. Woods, pine, amongst moss. 14 X 3 X J in. Must not be
confounded with 103, which smells strongly of soap.
d. Sericellce.
113. T. sulphureum Quél, (from its sulphur-colour) a b c.
P. sulphur-yellow, sometimes rufescent-clouded. St. striate,
sulphur. G. light sulphur. Flesh sulphur.
Gregarious. Probably poisonous. Odour strong and penetrating of gas-tar,
fetid, like .Hemerocallis flava, sometimes pleasant. Woods, mixed ;
common. Aug.-Nov. 34 X 4 X 4 in.
114. T. bufonium Gill, (from a fancied resemblance in the pileus to a
toad’s back ; bufo, a toad) a b c.
P. dotted-wrinkled, yellowish-tan or buff ; mid. rufescent.
St. flocculose, yellow or yellow^ rufescent. G. yellow-tan.
Odour same as 113, but fainter, sometimes not unpleasant. Woods, under
pines. Sept.-Nov. 3 x 2| X J in.
115. T. laseivum Gill, (from its many affinities; lascivus, playful,
wanton) a b.
P. not umt)onate, becoming depressed, cream to pale buff ; mid.
darker. St. ivory-white. G. separating from stem, crowded,
white.
Taste strong, disagreeable, pungent, somewhat acid ; odour like gas-tar,
varying to fried mushrooms, but disagreeable, more or less like 113.
Mixed woods; frequent. May-Nov. 3? X 2f X J in. Not unlike 1188
in general appearance.
116. T. inamcenum Gill, (from its unpleasant odour; inamoenus,
unpleasant) a c.
P. subumbonate, ivory-white. G. white or buff-white. Spores
ochre-white.
Suspected poisonous. Odour, especially when young, as in 113, but stronger
and more fetid. Woods, amongst i^ine-leaves. Sept.-Nov. 2| x 3J X § in.
Sometimes confounded with 115. Resembling 1188 in general appearance.
117. T. eerinum Quél, (from its colour, like yellow wax ; cera, wax)
a c.
P. yellow, then fuscous-brown. St. yellow, base often brownish,
or wholly fuscous. G. deep yellow.
Pine-woods, lawns. June-July. i f X 24 X J in.
118. T. fallax Sacc. (from its resemblance to a dwarf form of 114 or
117 ; fallax, deceitful) a.
P. yellow; mid. sometimes rufous. St. yellowish. G. w’hite,
then yellowish.
Under firs. Autumn. i4 X I X in.
118a. T. onyehinum Gill, {onychinus, of the colour of the human
nail) a.
P. fleshy, subumbonate, convexo-plane, glabrous, purplish or
sienna-umber ; marg. striate, orange sienna or silky-purple.
St. solid, almost equal, fibrilloso-silky, pallid or dull orange-
sulphur, reddish or sienna pulverulent above, brownish below.
G. rounded, at length free, crowded, yellow. Flesh yellowish-
white, or pale olive-sulphur.
Amongst pines, mossy places. Autumn. 2| X 3 X J in.
119. T. ionides Quél, (from its violet colour ; Gr. ion) a c.
P. lilac or violaceous, sometimes livid-reddish. St. pale lilac.
Flesh lilac under membrane of P., and at base of St.
Odour faint, agreeable, like 1280. Woods, moist places, open pastures,
under firs, cedars. Aug.-Nov. 2j X 24 X i in. Resembles 298 in
general appearance.