32 AGARICUS. 



Armillaria. down, soon becoming' pale, striate at the margin, everywhere beset 

 with ficscous-blackish, sometimes paler hairy squamules, fleshy at 

 the disc, continuous with the stem, otherwise thirty convex then 

 flattened, and at length depressed in the centre. Stem stuffed 

 then hollow, elastic, externally rigid 2ind sulcate, internally sp07igy , 

 floccose or rather naked below the ring, often light-yellow villous 

 at the base. Ri7ig nearly apical, silky, swollen at the circtimfer- 

 ence, sometimes however more scanty, in the form of a cortina, 

 disappearing. Gills at first adnate, then deciirrent with a tooth, 

 somewhat distant, pallid, commonly whitish flesh-colour, at length 

 rufescent, and zvhite-mealy with the abundant spores. 



Clay-colour in rainy weather ; in dry weather pale but opaquely ochraceous 

 or honey-colour. Stem becoming pale, when old often passing into fuligi- 

 nous or olivaceous. Very variable in its dimensions. The more remarkable 

 varieties are : (a) stem stout, very bulbous Kalchbr ; (b) Gills sulphur-coloured 

 \Vein7n ; (c) Colour tawny Gon?i. ^ Rab. iv. / . 3 ; (d) Colour becoming fuscous. 



On and near stumps. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



Solitary, gregarious or densely ctespitose. Spores sphasroid-ellipsoid, 9x6 

 mk. A'./ 10x8 mk. i5./ 9x5-6 mk. W.G.S. Edible but very tough. Frequently 

 eaten in Europe. Persoon condemns it, and Greville quotes an instance in 

 which Paulet tried its effect upon a dog, with a fatal result after twelve hours. 

 Name — met, honey. Honey-coloured. Ft. Dan. i. 1013. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 44. Hyni. Eur. p. 44. Berk. Out. p. 96. t. A^.f. \. C. Hbk. ?i. 36. Illust. 

 PI. 32. S. Mycol, Scot. n. 33. Grev. t. 332. Price t. 16, 32. Badh. i. t. 

 16. f. 3. ii. /. 9./". 3. KrotJibk. t. 43.7^ 2-6. Vittad. Fu7ig. ma?tg. t. 3. Vivian 

 t. 51. Fr.dtl. Sv. t. 36. Hofftn. Ic. t. 21. f. t.. A. obscurus Schcrff. t. 74. 

 A. annularius Bull. t. 377, 540.7^. 3. A. stipitis Sow. t. loi. A. mutabilis Fl. 

 Bat. t. 824. A. laricinus Bolt. t. 19. ? A. millus Sow. t. 184. ? 



58. A. subcavus Schum. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, white, 

 umbo umber, somewhat membranaceous, convexo-plane, viscous, 

 striate to the middle, the slightly fleshy disc umbonate. Stem 9 

 cent. (3^ in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) Xh'icV, Jistulose tipwards, equal, 

 slightly dotted, even above the inferior and torn ring, white. Gills 

 plane, decicrrent, white. 



Slender. More allied to the glutinous Lepiotce than to neighbouring species, 

 but the gills are figured as decurrent. 



On the ground. Cirencester, 1873. Nov. 



Name — S7ib, and cazms, hollow. From the partially hollow stem. Schum. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1843. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 46. Monogr. i. /. 45. B. &^ Br. n. 

 1403, entirely white. 



■*** Collybise annulatas. Gills equal behind.^ &^c. 



59. A. mucidus Schrad. — Pileus commonly shining white, 

 thin, almost diaphanous, hemispherical then expanded, obtuse. 



