Part 11

=columbetta=, Fr. White, here and there spotted with red. P. 5-10 cm. dry, glabrous then fibrillose; g. subserrulate; s. 6-10 cm. stout, solid, striate; sp. 6-7 x 4-5.

=scalpturatum=, Fr. P. 5-8 cm. conical then exp. dingy, tomentose then broken up into rufous or umber scales; g. white then yellowish; s. 5-9 cm. whitish, fibrillose; sp. 6-7 x 3.5.

var. argyraceum, Bull. Slender; p. silvery grey.

var. chrysites, Jungh. Pale, p. and g. becoming yellowish.

var. virescens, Wharton. Yellow-green when bruised.

These are forms rather than varieties.

** Gills rufous or greyish; edge usually spotted with rufous or black.

=imbricatum=, Fr. P. 8-12 cm. exp. obtuse, dry, rufous umber, innately squamulose, margin involute and downy at first; g. sinuate, crowded; s. 8-12 cm. solid, paler than p. apex white-pulverulent; sp. 6 x 4.

=vaccinum=, Fr. P. 7-12 cm. exp. umb. dry, rufous, squamulose, margin at first involute and downy; g. almost adnate; s. 7-10 cm. hollow, fibrillose, brownish; sp. subg. 6-7.

Differs from T. imbricatum in hollow stem and reddish flesh.

=immundum=, Berk. P. 5-9 cm. greyish, silky-squamulose, stained, margin incurved; g. greyish pink, separating readily from flesh; s. 4-6 cm. greyish, fibrillose; sp. subg. 4-5. Every part blackish when bruised.

=inodermeum=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. acute then umb. rufous brown, fibrillose and with radiating scales; g. free, ventricose, white, spotted red when bruised; s. 7-8 cm. fibrous, white with rufous tinge, apex powdered white; s. 7-8 x 4.

=terreum=, Schaeff. P. 5-8 cm. exp. umb. bluish grey with minute squamules; g. greyish, sinuate; s. whitish, fibrillose; sp. subgl. 5-6.

var. orirubens, Q. Edge of g. reddish.

var. atrosquamosum, Chev. P. grey with small black scales, g. whitish.

var. argyraceum, Bull. Entirely pure white, or p. greyish.

var. chrysites, Jungh. P. tinged yellowish or greenish.

III. RIGIDA. Pellicle rigid, punctato-granulate, or broken up into glabrous fragments when dry.

* Gills white or pallid, not rufous or grey spotted.

=macrorhizum=, Lasch. Smell strong. P. 10-20 cm. exp. ochraceous, darker and cracked when old; g. almost free; s. 5-10 cm. stout, ochraceous, rooting, solid, ventricose; sp. subgl. 5-6.

=saponaceum=, Fr. Smell strong. P. exp. obtuse, dry, livid, tinged olive, glabrous then often squamulose or punctate, flesh reddish; g. pallid with greenish tinge; s. 5-10 cm. whitish, somewhat rooting; sp. 5 x 4.

var. atrovirens, P. thin, wavy, obscure green with crowded black squamules.

Differs from Trich. saponaceum in the copper coloured p.

=cartilagineum=, Bull. P. 5-9 cm. soon exp. and wavy, margin persistently incurved, blackish, then broken up into small black spots; g. crowded then greyish; s. 3-5 cm. glabrous, pure white; sp. ----.

=tenuiceps=, Cke. and Mass. P. 5-8 cm., flesh very thin, obtuse, dry, granular, dusky brown; g. narrowed in front, white; st. 5-8 cm. ochraceous white, everywhere granular, base abrupt with cord-like mycelium; sp. subgl. 6-7.

=loricatum=, Fr. Smell strong. P. 2-5 cm. tough, convex, wavy, rather viscid, brown, cuticle thick, tough, separable; g. almost free, pallid; s. 5-7 cm. tough, often twisted, brownish red; sp. ----.

=atrocinereum=, Pers. P. 3-5 cm. soon plane, grey, prominent disc darker, often cracked; g. crowded, hyaline; s. 5-7 cm. cylindrical, stuffed, glabrous, apex naked, whitish; sp. ----.

=cuneifolium=, Fr. Smell strong. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. soon plane, dry, brown, glabrous then squamulose; g. crowded, white, broad and obliquely truncate in front; s. 2.5 cm. hollow, narrowed at base, pallid, apex mealy; sp. subgl. 3-5.