The Separating Tricholoma. Edible.
Figure 60.—Tricholoma sejunctum. One-half natural size.
Sejunctum means having separated. It refers to the separation of the gills from the stem. Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, slightly viscid, streaked with innate brown or blackish fibrils, whitish or yellow, sometimes greenish-yellow, flesh white and fragile.
The gills are broad, subdistant, rounded behind or notched, white.
The stem is solid, stout, often irregular, white. The spores are subglobose, .00025 inch broad. The pileus is one to three inches broad; stem one to four inches long and from four to eight lines thick. Peck's Report.
This is quite common about Salem, Ohio; on the old Lake Shore line in Wood County near Bowling Green, Ohio; and I have found it frequently near Chillicothe. When cooked it has a pleasant flavor. It is always an attractive specimen. I find it under beech trees in the woods, September to November.
Tricholoma unifactum. Pk.
United Tricholoma. Edible.