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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
white, fairly broad, stipe 1 J/2-3 (5) in. long, 14-% ^^- thick, equal or tapering
downward, glabrous, dry, white, solid or becoming hollow, spores white,
elliptical, smooth 5-7 X 3.5-5 /i.
Oct.
Singly or gregarious on the ground, usually in hardwood forests. Aug.-
This species is similar in stature to T. sejunctum but is pure white.
TRICHOLOMA RUTILANS (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Kummer Edible
Figure 181, page 11
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piLEUS 1 )/2-3 in. broad, campanulate-convex, expanding to nearly plane,
sometimes broadly umbonate, dry, covered with a dense brick-red to wine-
colored tomentum which separates into tomentose scales exposing yellowish
flesh between, incurved on the margin at first, flesh yellow, thin at the margin,
thick at the disk, taste mild, lamellae adnate, becoming rounded at the stipe,
crowded, rather narrow to moderately broad, clear yellow, floccose on the
edges, stipe 2-4 in. long, Y^-Vi in. thick, equal or nearly so, stuffed in the
center, becoming hollow, often curved, yellow, dotted with minute wine-
colored tomentose scales which may partly or almost entirely disappear,
yellow within, spores smooth, white, broadly ovoid, 6-7 X 3.5-5 ii.
Solitary or sHghtly clustered, on conifer wood, sometimes apparently on
the ground. June-Sept,
It can be easily distinguished by its purple-red scales, yellow flesh and
lamellae, and by its habitat on wood. It is not a typical Tricholoma in many
ways and has been made the type of a new genus Tricholomopsis by Singer.
It might be confused with Clitocybe decora (Fr.) Gill, also growing on
wood and having yellow lamellae, but the scales of the latter are blackish and
the attachment of the lamellae is different. C. decora has also been placed in
Tricholomopsis and these two species are undoubtedly closely related.
TRICHOLOMA SAPONACEUM (Fr.) Kummer Not edible
Figure 182, page 111
piLEUS %-3 in. broad, convex becoming expanded, variable in color, pale
gray or pale brown, usually more or less tinged olive or greenish, darker on
disk, glabrous or becoming cracked, not viscid, margin incurved, flesh white
becoming pinkish, thick, firm, odor and taste rather soapy, disagreeable.
LAMELLAE adnate, emarginate, with a decurrent tooth, subdistant, rather broad,
whitish. STIPE 1 ]/2-3 in. long, ^4-% in. thick, equal to ventricose, white, becoming
pinkish within, glabrous to minutely floccose, solid, spores white,
elHptical to ovoid, 5.5-7 X 3.5-5 /x-
Singly or gregarious on the ground in mixed woods. Aug.-Oct.
The gray-green pilei, the flesh staining pink, and the very disagreeable
odor and taste are the distinguishing characters of this species. Sometimes the
odor is not very pronounced.
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