THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 



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The Amanita and Lepiota have the flesh of the stem and the pileus not 

 continuous, and their stems are, therefore, easily separated from the cap, but in 

 the Armillaria the gills and the pileus are attached to the stem. 



Figure 40. Armillaria mellea. Two-thirds natural size, showing double ring present. 



Armillaria mellea. Vahl. 



The Honey-Colored Armillaria. Ediblk. 



Mellea, from melleus, of the color of honey. Cap fleshy, honey colored, or 

 ochraceous, striate on the margin, shaded with darker brown toward the center, 

 having a central boss-like elevation and sometimes a central depression in full 

 grown specimens, tufted with dark-brown fugitive hairs. Color of the cap varies, 

 depending upon climatic conditions and the character of the habitat. Gills distant, 



