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10 2 AGARICACEÆ Entoloma
467. P. violarius Sacc. (from its bright violet exudation) a b.
P. expanded, smooth, even, spongy, dry, purple, crimson-purple
or sienna. St. hollow, silky-white, black-fibrillose on a pale
umber ground below. G. serrulate, crowded. Flesh grey.
Gregarious. Taste pleasant; odour none. Stumps, rotten wood, i j x i X Jin.
468. P. roseoalbus Gill, (from the rosy-white or salmon pileus) a b.
P. expanded, subumbonate. St. solid, pale rose or white. Flesh
pale salmon.
Trunks, elm. Sept.-Nov. 3 j X 3 i X A in-
469. P. leoninus Quél, (from the colour of the pileus, often liontawny)
abc.
P. convex, striate, lemon, yellow, orange, tawny or scarlet; mid.
darker ; or orarige with sulphur marg. St. solid, yellowish. G.
often with a yellowish edge.
Cæspitose^ Wood ; rare. Sept.-Jan. 2f X 2j x i in. Var. coccineus
Mass., F. crimson-orange or vermilion.
470. P. ehrysophæus Quél, (from the dusky-golden stem ; Gr. chrusos,
gold,phaios, dusky) abc.
P. plane, cinnamon ; marg. striate. NZ sulphur, sulphur-white or
yellowish. G. colour as St., then salmon.
Taste insipid; odour none or subacid. Rotten wood, rotten sawdust,
rotten ash, beech-stumps, boards, earth, hollow trees. May-Nov’
2f X 2j X f in.
471. P. phlebophorus Gill, (from the strongly veined pileus; Gr.
phleps, a vein,phero, to carry) abc . ’ ’
P. convex, subumbonate, umber ; marg. plain. St. hollow, white.
Flesh greyish-white.
Dead stumps, rotten wood, sawdust, sticks ; rare. June-Oct. 2 X 2| X J in.
472. P. umbrinellus Gill, (from its umber pileus) a b.
P. submembranous, expanded, sometimes subumbonate; marg.
fimbriate. St. hollow, fibrous, shining, whitish becoming
brownish.
Ontheground. Oct. i i x 2f x j i n .
XV. ENTOLOMA Quél.
(From the potential, rather than definite veil; Gr. entos, within,
loma, a fringe.)
Fiz7 universal, faintly indicated by silkiness, flock, or scaliness.
Hymenophore confluent and homogeneous with the fleshy stem.
Pitetis somewhat fleshy, margin at first incurved. Stem central)
simple, fleshy, fibrous, soft or sometimes waxy. Gills sinuato!
adnexed, sinuate or adnate often separating from stem, at first
white then usually salmon. Spores elliptical and smooth or subglobose
and coarsely warted, rosy or salmon. (Fig. 24.)
Entoloma AGARICACEÆ 103
All the species grow on the ground in fields and woods chiefly
after heavy rain, several appear in spring and summer; none are
known to be edible, some are poisonous, many smell of meal.
Fig. 24.— Section o f E n to lom a rhodopolium Quél.
One-quarter natural size.
Entoloma agrees in structure and habit with Tricholoma and
Hebeloma, and to a great extent with Hypholoma. It is necessary to
carefully distinguish the rose- and salmon-coloured spores of Entoloma
from the sometimes pale clay-coloured spores of Hebeloma.
Species 473—502
a. Genumce. Piletis fleshy, when full grown; smooth, often
viscid but not hygrophanous, not innato-floccose or
squamulose. 473—483
b. Leptonideæ. Pileus dry, except 484, flocculose, somewhat
scaly. 484—490
c. Nolanideæ. Pileus thin, commonly irregular and repand, for
the most part scissile, hygrophanous, smooth, with a silky
appearance when dry. 491—502
a. Genuince.
473. E. sinuatum Quel, (from the sinuate margin of the pileus) abc .
P. expanded, then repand, white or shaded tan, lavender, pale
yellowish or brownish. St. solid, whitish. G. at first livid-
whitish, then pinkish, at length brownish-salmon.
Gregarious. Poisonous. Odour strong, pleasant, somewhat of burnt sugar.
Woods, mixed. July.-Oct. 7 x 5 x 1 m. P. sometimes 8 to lo in. in
diam. Young examples are sometimes mistaken for the mushroom.
474. E. lividum Quél, (from the livid colour of the pileus) a b.
P. plane, broadly subumbonate, livid tan ; mid. pale yellowish-
buff. St. subhollow, whitish. G. adnexo-rounded, salmon.
Poisonous. Odour of new meal or none. Woods. April-Oct. 4ÎX 3jx J in.
Sometimes mistaken for the mushroom. Var. roseum Sacc., P. slightly
rose-tinted ; logs.
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