ARMILLARIA 107 



pressed at the centre; margin white, incurved, appendiculate with the 

 veil. St. 58 x 1-2-5 cm., white, and mealy at the apex, covered with 

 large, denticulate, dark chestnut squamules below the ring, attenuated at 

 the base. Ring white inside, torn, covered on the outside with similar 

 squamules, ascending. Gills white, adnate, slightly decurrent, broad. 

 Flesh white, firm. Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 4ju,. Smell of pear. 

 Taste bitter. Edible. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



A. aurantia (Schaeff.) Fr. = Tricholoma aurantium (SchaefE.) Fr. Syst. 



252. A. colossa (Fr.) Bond. (=Tricholoma colossum Fr.) Boud. Icon. 

 t. 20. Ko\oacr6<f, a gigantic statue. 



P. 10-22 cm., reddish tawny, darker at the centre, globose, then ex- 

 panded, plano-convex, then depressed, always very obtuse, repand, 

 becoming broken up into scales; margin whitish, incurved, slightly 

 viscid, cottony. St. 7-5-10 x 6-10 cm., concolorous, or more deeply 

 coloured than the p. below the ring, apex white, floccose, base bulbous. 

 Ring white, then becoming reddish, membranaceous, soon fugacious. Gills 

 white, then pale brick red, rounded, sinuate, very wide, 12 mm. broad, 

 fragile, torn. Flesh white, then pale brick-red, very hard, thick. Spores 

 white, globose, 6-7 x 5-7 /*, with a large central gutta. Taste nutty, 

 then slightly bitter. Edible. Pine woods. June Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



253. A. ramentacea (Bull.) Fr. (= Tricholoma ramentaceum (Bull.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 53, t. 71. Ramenta, shavings. 



P. 57-5 cm., whitish, or greyish, covered with adpressed, floccose, 

 dark grey, or bistre scales, convex, then plane, obtuse, or gibbous, at 

 length depressed, and revolute. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, 

 covered with adpressed, fuscous, or bistre squamules below the ring, firm, 

 unequal, often thickened at the base. Ring white above, greyish and 

 scaly on the outside, often stained yellowish, membranaceous, fugacious. 

 Gills white, often stained with yellow, emarginato-adnexed, separating 

 free, 6-8 mm., broad, crowded, then subdistant, thin. Flesh white, 

 yellowish under the epidermis. Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 4/A, with 

 a large central gutta. Taste sweet. Smell unpleasant. Under pines. 

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



A. constricta Fr. = Lepiota constricta (Fr.) Quel. 

 A. glioderma (Fr.) Quel. = Lepiota glioderma Fr. 



254. A. delicata (Fr.) Boud. (= Lepiota delicata Fr.) Boud. Icon, 

 t. 23. Delicata, tender. 



P. 13 cm., rufescent, pale rose, yellowish, or brownish, convex, then 

 plane, depressed at the centre, often slightly umbonate, viscid; margin 

 faintly sulcate. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., whitish, tinted with the colour 

 of the p., and fioccoso-scaly or tomentose below the ring, equal. Ring 



