AGAEICIXI. 19 



evanescent; gills emarginate, crowded, vrliite. — Fr.Epicr.p.22. 

 Batt. t. 7,f. 4. Eng. Fl. y.pt. 2, p. 11. Fr. Icon. t. 18,/. 1. 



In pastures, where the ground is bleached with urine. Rare. 

 Northamptonshire. 



Purewhitf, odourvery strong, like that of fresh, meal. Pileus obtuse, plano- 

 convex, broadly umbonate, fleshy, shining vrith. a silky lustre, assuming a very 

 pale yellow tint when bruised ; gills close, very deeply emarginate, even when 

 quite young ; stem 2 in. high, j in. thick, rather flexuous, fibrillose, solid, more 

 lax and fibnllose within, very brittle ; when young, with a delicate web-like 

 curtain, which soon vanishes ; spores white, subelliptic — M. J. B. 



35. Agaricus (Armillaria) raxnentaceus. £uU. "Dingy 



Armillaria." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, villoso-squamose, dry ; 

 stem solid, unequal, scaly; ring inferior, of interwoven flocci ; gills 

 emarginate, crowded, whitish, then discoloured. — BulLt. 595./. 3. 

 — Bei^k. Out. p. 96. 



On the ground. Xot common. 



Whitish or yellowish, scales brown, odour unpleasant. 



Sect. 2. Clitocyholde(E» 



36. Agaricus (Armillaria) melleus. Vahl. " Honey- Coloured 



Armillaria." 



Pileus fleshy, at length plane, clothed with fibrous scales ; 

 margin striate ; stem spongy, stuffed, elastic, fibrillose ; ring 

 floccose, patent ; gills adnate, ending in a decurrent tooth, some- 

 what distant, pallid, then mealy with the profuse white spores, 

 and spotted with reddish-brown. — Fr. Epicr.p. 23. Berk. Outl. t. 

 4,/. i. Cooke, B. F., t. 3. Fl.Dan. t. 1013. Vitt.Mang. t. 3. Vent. 

 t. 24, t. 25,/. 1, 2. Lenz.f. 7. Price,/. 16, 32. Kromh. t. i. /. 13, t. 

 43,/ 2-6. Gard.Chron.{l^^O),p.i). Badh.i. t.l6,f.3,n. t.d,f. 

 3. Sow.t.lOl. Batt.t.n,F.B. Eng. Fl.Y.p.U. Gonn.^-Rahh. 

 t. 3. Barla. t. 11. A.laricinus. Bolt. 1. 19 ? 



On dead stumps. Very common. [United States.] 



Densely csespitose, pale rufous, more or less shaded with yellow. Some- 

 times without a ling. Pileus 2-7 in, across, fleshy, at first convex, then 

 piano-expanded, often sub-umbonate, variously lobed, dirty yellow, brownish 

 yellow, or reddish, rough with reflexed scales, especially towards the centre, 

 which are at first bright wax-yellow, at lensfth dark brown ; margin 

 slightly striate, flesh firm ; giUs distant, adnato-decurrent, at first pale, at 

 length reddish, mealy with the white spores ; stem 2-8 in. high, swollen at 

 the base, thinnest in the middle, fibrillose, with a slight yellow pubescence 

 at the base, yellowish or reddish, occasionally somewhat scaly near the apex, 

 firm and elastic, solid ; ring large, yellow, tumid, spreading: ; odour agree- 

 able ; esculent, but not commendable.— J/". /. B. Spores -QOOoo X "00023 in. 

 — W. G. S. (PI. ii., fig. 3 and fig. 36.) 



