106 ARMILLARIA 



248. A. rufa (Batt.) Quel. (= Agaricus causetta Barla sec. Quel.; 

 Armillaria focalis Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 51, t. 33, as 

 Armillaria aurantia Fr. fide Boudier. Rufa, red. 



P. 8-12 cm., chestnut, or brownish tawny, convex, then plane; 

 margin fibrillose, torn. St. 6-9 x 3 cm., white, covered with reddish tawny 

 squamules up to the ring, apex glabrous, equal, attenuated and root- 

 ing at the base. Ring reddish, squamulose. Gills greenish white, sinuate. 

 Flesh white, compact. Spores white, globose, 3-4/i, punctate. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Sandy coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



249. A. focalis Fr. (= Armillaria rufa (Batt.) Quel.) 



Focale, a neck-cloth. 



P. 10-12-5 cm., reddish tawny, fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, 

 slightly shining, silky-fibrillose. St. 7-5-9 x 2-5 cm., whitish, becoming 

 tawny, equal, fibrillose. Ring concolorous, median, oblique. Gills 

 white, then pale, emarginato-free, crowded. Flesh pale tawny. Spores 

 white, "4-5 x 3 /A" Rick. Pine woods, and under old laurel trees. 

 Aug. Oct. Rare. 



var. Goliath Fr. The giant Goliath. 



Differs from the type in its larger size, in the revolute torn margin 

 of the p., in the st. becoming tawny fibrillose downwards, in the fugacious 

 ring, and in the thinner flesh at the margin of the p. 



250. A. robusta (A. & S.) Fr. (= Agaricus caligatus Viv. sec. Quel.) 

 Boud. Icon. t. 22. Robusta, strong. 



P. 5-15 cm., bay brown rufescent, margin paler, very fleshy, convex, 

 then expanded, obtuse; margin scaly-fibrillose. St. 4-7 x 2-3 cm., 

 white, covered with rufescent squamules up to the ring, fusiform, apex 

 mealy. Ring white, streaked with rufescent fibrils, large, subpersistent. 

 Gills whitish, or cream colour, broadly emarginate, almost free, 10- 

 12 mm. broad, crowded, often transversely veined. Flesh white, 

 reddish under the cuticle of the p. Spores white, globose, 4-5 /it. Taste 

 and smell pleasant. Edible. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



var. minor Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. part in, t. 1, fig. 4, as Armillaria 

 subannulata Batsch. Minor, smaller. 



Differs from the type in the smooth p. and in very narrow gills and 

 ring. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



251. A. caligata (Viv.) Fr. (= Armillaria robusta A. & S. sec. Quel.) 

 Boud. Icon. t. 21. Caliga, a soldier's shoe. 



P. 612 cm., brownish chestnut, somewhat purplish, covered with ad- 

 pressed, denticulate, darker squamules on the disc, firm, convex, de- 



