Taste mild. Stem In fir-woods, stuffed, at length hollow.
44. A. (Tricholoma) vaccinus, P . ; pileus fleshy, at first
campanulate, umbonate, dry, rough with floccose scales;
margin involute, tomentose; stem hollow, equal, fibrillose;
gills fixed, rather distant, at length rufous.
In fir-woods. East Bergholt, Dr. Badham. Nassington,
Northamptonshire. Taste disagreeable.
45. A. (Tricholoma) orassifolius. Berk.; pileus fleshy,
waved, minutely adpresso-squamulose, umbonate, ochraceous;
disc umber; stem solid, nearly equal, pruinose; gills thick,
moderately distant, nearly free, at length yellowish, stained
with brown.
In fir-woods. Winkbourn, Notts. Pileus 3-4 inches
across. Smell rather strong.
46. A. (Tricholoma) murinaceus, Bull. ; pileus thin, firm,
brittle, at first campanulate, then expanded, cracked, streaked,
silky, dry; stem stout, cracked, and streaked with minute
black scales, solid; gills very broad, undulated, distant, more
or less anastomosing, brittle, cinereous, often marked with
raised lines; edge at length black.—Sow. t. 106.
In woods. Not common. Taste bitter, unpleasant; odour
not nitrous. Not an Hygrophorus, and very different from
H. murinaceus, Fr.
47. A. (Tricholoma) terreus, Schaff.; inodorous; pileus
fleshy, soft, at first campanulate, dry, umbonate, clothed with
innate floccose or scaly down; stem stuffed, nearly equal,
dirty white, adpresso-fibrillose ; gills adnexed, with a decurrent
tooth, crenulate, pale grey.—Row. t. 76.
In woods, especially fir-woods. Common. This species
varies, with white and yellowish gills. A. millus. Sow., is a
form of this, or of one of the following species.
48. A. (Tricholoma) scalpturatus, F r .; pileus fleshy, at
first suhconical, broken up into floccose, umber or rufous
scales; stem stuffed, unequal, white, fibrillose; gills emarginate,
rather crowded, quite entire, white, becoming yellowish.
—A. argyraccus, Eng. FI. (pro parte.)
Fir plantations, borders of woods, etc.
49. A. (Tricholoma) sapouacens, Fr.; strong-scented,
firm; pileus rather compact, at first convex, obtuse, dry,
smooth, then rimoso-squamose or dotted; margin from the
first naked; stem solid, unequal; gills uncinato-emarginate,
distant, thin, quite entire, changing from white to pallid,
sometimes greenish.— A., argyraccus, Eng. FI. in p a r t; Bull,
t. 602.
In woods. This species, A. scalpturatus, and A. ramentaceus,
which latter differs in the presence of a ring, are all included
in the ‘ English Flora’ under the name of A. argyraceus.
A. graveolens. Sow., must be sought for under A. gambosus.
50. A. (Tricholoma) meleagris. Sow.; pileus fleshy, thin,
convex, then plane; cuticle broken np into black scales; flesh
turning red; stem solid, squamulose, thickened downwards,
and black, solid; root reticulated ; gills nearly free.—Sow. t.
171.
On hotbeds. Not sufficiently known. Intermediate in
characters between Lepiota and Tricholoma, but apparently
destitute of a veil.
51. A. (Tricholoma) cartilaginous. Bull.; cartilaginous,
clastic, rather brittle; pileus fleshy, convex, gibbous, undulated,
smooth; cuticle rimulose, finely dotted with black;
stem stuffed, equal, stout, lineato-striatc, somewhat mealy;
gills slightly emarginate, adnexed, crowded, pallid.—Bull. t.
589. / . 3.
In grassy spots. East Bergholt, Dr. Badham. Nov. 1855.
Smell like that of new flour.