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AGARICINI, 



divided into two distinct portions, the upper silky, of a pinkish hue, the lower 

 scaly, like the pileus, but the scales browner, attenuated at the base, hollow, 

 stuffed with fine silky filaments, with many branched fibrous roots. Ring 

 fugacious, attached in minute portions to the edge of the pileus. laodorous 

 and insipid.— J/. /. B. Spores -0001 X -00012 in.— W. Q. S. 



Sect. 5. Illiniti. — pileus viscid. 



33. Agaricus (Lepiota) gliodermus. Fr. '* Viscid Lepiota." 



Pileus thin, soft, campanulate, convex, smooth, even, rufous, 

 viscid ; stem whitish, floccoso-squamose, stuffed with cottony 

 threads; ring torn; gills free, white, approximate. — Fr. Hym. 

 Mon. p. 31. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 785. 



In woods. Aug. Wothoi-p, near Stamford. 



Pileus 1| in. across. Stem about 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, dry, as 

 far as the incomplete torn ring floccoso-squamulose, above the ring naked, 

 whitish, or rufescent. Gills broad, crowded, white. 



Sub-Gen. 3. Armillaria. Fr. S. M., i. p. 26. 



Veil partial, in infancy attaching the 

 edge of pileus to the upper part of stem, 

 and often formingflocci on the pileus (g); 

 pileus generally fleshy ; stem homogene- 

 ous and confluent with the hymenophore, 

 furnished with a ring (sometimes absent 

 in abnormal specimens), below the ring 

 the veil is concrete with the stem, often 

 forming scales upon it, similar to the 

 scurfy scales on the pileus ; gills broadly 

 touching, or running down the stem. 



Hab. On the ground, or on stumps 

 of trees. — {PI. 11.^ jig. 3, Ag. melleus.) 



This subgenus corresponds with Pholiota and 

 StroplMria ; it is also allied to Trkholoraa, 

 Clitocyhe, and Collyhia, amongst the white- 

 spored Agarics. Fries subdivides Anidllo.ria 

 into groups, depending on their relations to 

 Fig. 86. one or other of these subgenera. — W. G. S. 



Sect. 1. Tricholomoidece. 



34. Agaricus (Armillaria) constrictus. Fr. " White Armillaria." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, even, dry, with an 

 evanescent silky lustre ; stem solid, nearly equal ; ring superior, 



