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178. L. glioderma Fr. (= Armillaria glioderma (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 15. <y\oiov, viscid; Sep/j,a, skin. 



P. 4 cm., brownish red, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then convex, 

 broadly gibbous, or obtuse, glutinous. St. 7'5 cm. x 46 mm., whitish, 

 or rufescent, equal, fragile, dry, floccosely scaly up to the ring. Ring 

 white above, rufescent squamulose on the outside, fibrillose, silky, torn. 

 Grills white, or cream colour, free, approximate, ventricose, broad, 

 crowded. Flesh white, then pinkish, soft, thin. Spores white, sub- 

 globose, 5)it. Fir woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



L. delicata Fr. = Armillaria delicata (Fr.) Boud. 



179. L. Georginae W. G. Sm. Cke. lUus. no. 47, t. 132. 



Miss Georgina E. Johnstone. 



Entirely white, turning crimson everywhere when touched, and finally 

 becoming brown when dry. P. 13 cm., slightly fleshy, fragile, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded, covered with a minute, dense, viscid pruinosity ; 

 margin at length striate. St. 2-55 cm. x 34 mm., slightly attenu- 

 ated upwards, viscido-pruinose. Ring fugacious. Gills free, very thin, 

 moderately distant, somewhat ventricose, 3 mm. broad. Spores 

 pinkish in the mass, pip-shaped, 6-8 x 4/x, 1- rarely 2-guttulate. Pine 

 woods and amongst mosses in a cool fernery. May Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



HiatulaFr. 

 (Hio, I gape.) 



Pileus slightly fleshy at the disc, campanulate. Stem central. Ring 

 very fugacious, not manifest in the adult stage. Gills free, or adnate. 

 Spores white, subglobose, smooth, with a germ-pore. Growing on wood. 



180. H. Wynniae B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 676, t. 688. 



Mrs Lloyd Wynne. 



Entirely shining white. P. 3-4 cm., very thin, campanulate, then 

 plane, with a trace of an umbo, striate, pulverulent, disc darker. St. 

 2-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., equal, striate. Gills free, or very slightly adnexed 

 at first, subdistant, 2 mm. broad, scarious. Spores white, subglobose, 

 5 x 4/i, with a germ-pore. On wood in stoves. Phosphorescent. A 

 native of Queensland. 



Spores pink. 

 Annularia Schulz. 



(Annularia, pertaining to a signet-ring.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Ring large, free, or adnate. 

 Gills free. Spores pink, globose, or oval, smooth, continuous. Cystidia 

 ventricose. Growing on the ground, or on wood. 



