30 AGARICUS. 



Armillaria. viscous, even and bay-brow?i'r2ifesce?it at the disc, towa^'ds the 

 ?nargin torn itito fibres^ paler, and, when the cuticle is torn, be- 

 coming white ; flesh spongy-soft, elastic, white. Stem 20 cent. 

 (8 in.) and more long", 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, fibrous-solid, com- 

 monly decumbent on account of the weight of the pileus, equal 

 or attenuato-rooted at the base, externally and internally white, 

 but becojnmg tawny and with taw7iy fibrils downwards. Ring 

 medial, fugacious, often completely obliterated. Gills rounded- 

 free, very broad, 12 mm. (^ in.) and more, very ventricose, rather 

 thick, crowded, white. 



The cuticle of the pileus and of the stem torn into fibrils, separable. In 

 woods. Fr. Monogr. p. 37. C. Illust. PL 31. 



53. A. robustus A. & S. — Pileus bay-brown-rufescent, very 

 fleshy, convex then expanded, obtuse, dry, typically smooth, but 

 scaly-fibrillose towards the margin ; flesh hard, 2.5 cent, (i in.) 

 thick. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) rarely more long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) 

 and more thick, solid, compact, attenuated at the base, fibrillose 

 below the inferior, large, floccose, somewhat persistent ring, white- 

 rufescent, white, however, and flocculose at the apex. Gills broad- 

 ly emarginate, almost free, 12 mm. (^ in.) broad, crowded, 

 whitish. 



The stem is clothed up to the ring with the remains of a true though not a 

 very conspicuous veil. The flesh of the stem is diffused into the pileus, as is 

 usual when the pileus is continuous with the stem. Various in size and stat- 

 ure. It can be distinguished at first sight from A. focalis, &c. , by the substance 

 of the entire plant being co7npact and hard, and by the stem being obese, ven- 

 tricose, and attenuated dow?twards. The genuine form majorha.s a large ring, 

 with the pileus often broken up into scales, and very broad gills. The form 

 minor has an even pileus, with both ring and gills very narrow. Krombh. t. 

 25./. 15-20. 



In woods. Rare. Autumn. 



Taste and smell exactly that of Polyporus squamosus. B. 6^ Br. Spores 

 ovoid-sphcerical, 7 mk. Q. Name — robustus, stout, sturdy. Alb. &> Schw. 

 Consp. p. 147. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 37. Hytn. Eur. p. 41. B. df Br. n. 1502. 

 C. Illust. PL 33 (A, aurantius in error), 86, var. minor. 



54. A. ramentaceus Bull. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 pallid, whitish, becoming yellow or rufescent, the scales and 

 punctate disc darker, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse or gib- 

 bous, at length depressed and revolute, dry, the cuticle torn into 

 adpressed floccose scales; flesh somewhat compact, 12 mm. {yi in.) 

 thick, white. Stem 2.5-5 (1-2 in.) long, rarely more, about 12 

 mm. {Yz in.) thick, solid, firm, utiequal., often thickened at the base, 

 white, but variegated with adpressed fuscous sqiiainules below the 



