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pale-yellowish-brick colour, paler at the margin, fleshy, not com- Armillaria. 



pact, convexo-flattened, obtuse, moist, smooth in itself, but here 



and there, and chiefly round the margin, squamuloso-fibrillose 



from the fragments of the veil, then naked ; flesh whitish, soft, 



thin at the margin, wherefore the pileus is not broken into squam- 



ules. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, almost 12 mm. {% in.) 



thick, stuffed, rarely hollow, cylindrical, but terniuiated at the base 



by a globose inarginate bulb; the external cuticle pale, separable, 



at length marked longitudinally with blackish fibrils ; texture 



longitudinally fibrous, but stuffed in the centre with a softer pith ; 



externally and internally becoming pale white ; the veil forms a 



cortina ending in a ring on the stem, adhering loosely, oblique, 



fugacious, white. Gills broadly emarginate somewhat crowded, 



at length distant, broad, becoming pale white, at length almost 



of the same colour as the pileus. 



A very singular fungus, of a peculiar type, resembling in stature the turbin- 

 ate or marginato-bulbous Cortinarii, but by no means allied to these. The 

 form of the bulb is singular and constant, somewhat globose, depresso-con- 

 cave above, with an annular margin. Odour and taste none. 



In pine woods, &c. Hereford, 1875, &c. Oct. 



Spores ovoid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid, 7-10x4-5 mk. K. ; 5x7 mk, W.P. 

 Name — bulbus, a bulb, gero, to carry. Alb. 6^ Schw. Co7isp. p. 150. Fr. 

 Monogr. \. p. 35. Hym. Eur. p. 40. Icon. t. 2.6. f. 2. B. ^ Br. n. 1501. 

 C. Ilhist. PL 20. 5, Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. A'at. 1855, p. 20. Klotsch. Ft. 

 Bor.t. 373. 



52. A. focalis Fr. — Pileus 10-12. 5 cent. (4-5 in.) broad, fleshy, 

 moderately compact at the disc, convex then flattened, obtuse, 

 dry, slightly shining ; cuticle b7'ick-ta'wny, become even, but silky- 

 fibrillosej flesh soft, 12 mm. [yz in.) thick at the disc, slightly 

 tawny-pallid. Stem about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, almost 2.5 cent, 

 (i in.) thick, fleshy-solid, wholly fibrous within, elastic, equal, by 

 no means bulbous, externally torn into fibrils, the medial ring 

 oblique. GiUs emarginato-free, crowded, narrow compared with 

 the pileus, white, at length becoming pale. 



On account of the flesh being soft like that of A. bulbiger the pileus is not 

 broken into squamules. Variable. 



On bare ground under old laurel-trees. Coed Coch. 



'^^cme.—focale, a neckcloth. From the neckcloth-like ring. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. /. 36. Hym. Eur. p. 40. B. &^ Br. n. 1837. C. Illust. PL 245. 



Var. Goliath Fr. — Pileus 20 cent. (8 in.) broad, peculiarly 

 fleshy, very much thinned out towards the margin, convexo- 

 flattened, at length gibbous, revolute at the margin, moist, not 



