AMANITA. ARMILLARIA 105 



which become whitish or brownish in dry weather, convex, then 

 plane. St. 5-8 x 1 cm., white, attenuated upwards, slightly floccose, 

 base bulbous, surmounted by sulphur coloured flocci that become brown- 

 ish. Ring white, distant, margin sprinkled with sulphur coloured flocci. 

 Volva sulphur coloured, friable. Gills white, or tinged sulphur colour, 

 rounded-free, ventricose. Flesh white, yellowish, or brownish under the 

 epidermis. Spores white, ovoid, 7-8 x 6-7 /A, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 sparse, vesiculose, 20-40 x 18-25 p. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Poisonous. Beech woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



A. magnifica (Fl. Dan.) Fr. = Amanita rubescens (Pers.) Fr. var. 

 magnifica (Fl. Dan.) Rea. 



A. arida Fr. = Lepiota arida (Fr.) Gillet. 



A. lenticularis (Lasch) Fr. = Lepiota lenticularis (Lasch) Cke. 



A. megalodactylus Berk. & Br. = Lepiota lenticularis (Lasch) Cke. 

 var. megalodactylus (B. & Br.) Rea. 



B. Pileus confluent, and homogeneous with the fleshy stem. 



*With a membranaceous ring on the stem. 



Spores white. 



Armillaria Fr. 



(Armilla, a ring.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central, fleshy. Ring membranaceous, 

 or subarachnoid, adnate, persistent, or fugacious. Gills sinuato- 

 adnexed, decurrent, or adnate. Spores white, elliptical, oval, or 

 globose, smooth. Growing on the ground, and on wood, sometimes 

 caespitose. 



(a) Gills sinuato-adnexed. 

 247. A. bulbigera (A. & S.) Fr. Bulbus, a bulb; gero, I bear. 



P. 7-5-10 cm., pale yellowish brick colour, fleshy, not compact, con- 

 vexo-flattened, obtuse, moist; margin paler, squamuloso-fibrillose from 

 the fragments of the veil. St. 5-7-5 x 1-5-2 cm., white, equal, floccose 

 with the remains of the arachnoid veil up to the ring, sometimes the 

 separable cuticle is marked longitudinally with blackish fibrils, base 

 marginately bulbous. Ring white, arachnoid, silky, fugacious. Gills 

 white, then cream colour, or reddish, broadly emarginate, ventricose, 

 broad. Flesh white, reddish under the cuticle, and above the base of the 

 gills. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5/A. In pine woods. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Exactly like a white-spored Cortinarius. 



