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panded, gibbous, or obtusely umbonate. St. 4-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, 

 fibrillose, attenuated upwards from the swollen base. Ring white, 

 membranaceous, superior, thick, fimbriate at the margin, often finally 

 fugacious. Gills white, free, separated by a collar, ventricose, soft, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thick. Spores white, broadly ovoid, 8- 

 9 x 5-5/i, with a large central gutta. " Cystidia club-shaped, 55 x 10- 

 11/x," Lange. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Pastures and gar- 

 dens. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. leucothites (Vitt.) Fr. Vitt. Fung. Mang. t. 40. Xeu/eo?, white. 



Differs from the type in the p. breaking up into squamules especially 

 near the margin, and in the gills becoming pink with age. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5/z, or 9 x 1p. Edible. Pastures and heaths. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



149. L. holosericea Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 34, t. 41. 



0X09, wholly; (rrjpiKos, silky. 



P. 5-10 cm., white, or yellowish, fleshy, soft, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, fibrillosely silky. St. 6-10 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, soft, fragile, 

 base bulbous, silky-fibrillose. Ring whitish, membranaceous, superior, 

 large, soft, pendulous. Gills white, becoming cream colour, free, ventri- 

 cose, broad, crowded. Flesh white, soft. Spores white, elliptical, 

 8-9 x 4-5/z. Edible. Bare ground in arable fields, hopyards, and 

 gardens. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



150. L. erminea Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 32, t. 40. Erminea, white. 



Entirely white with the exception of the ochraceous disc of the p. 

 P. 36 cm., campanulate, then flattened, slightly gibbous at the 

 prominent disc, becoming fibrillosely silky towards the margin. St. 

 57-5 cm. x 36 mm., equal, very fragile, silky. Ring membranaceous, 

 distant, narrow, at length torn and fugacious. Gills sinuate, then free, 

 somewhat crowded. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 9-11 x 3 4jti. 

 "Cystidia on edge of gill vesiculose-pyriform, 36-40 x 12-16ju," Rick. 

 Smell and taste of radish. Roadsides, and hilly pastures. Sept. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.V.) 



151. L. constricta (Fr.) Quel. (= Armillaria constricta Fr.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 18. Constricta, compressed. 



Entirely white, becoming ochraceous when bruised. P. 3-5 cm., 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, pruinose, then silky; margin at 

 first involute, and villous. St. 4-5 cm. x 6-9 mm., equal, or thickened 

 at the base, slightly rooting, fibrillose, or squamulose. Ring superior, . 

 narrow, adhering obliquely, at length fugacious. Gills emarginate, 

 then free, very crowded, unequal. Flesh compact. Spores white, 

 elliptical, granular, 7-8 x 4-5/x. Smell of new meal. Pastures, 



