108 ARMILLARIA 



concolorous, membranaceous, densely floccoso- scaly. Gills white, be- 

 coming tinted with the colour of the p. when old, almost free, crowded, 

 thin, ventricose. Flesh white, or yellowish, thin. Spores white, 

 globose, 5-6 /z. Coniferous woods, hothouses, and about old stumps. 

 June Sept. Rare in woods. 



255. A. haematites B. & Br. Cke. lUus. no. 54, t. 45. 



aifjLaTirr/s, bloody. 



P. 2-4 cm., red liver colour, hemispherical, then somewhat flattened, 

 or depressed at the centre, thin, slightly hispid, becoming smooth. 

 St. 4-6 cm. x 3-5 mm., concolorous below the ring, whitish above, equal ; 

 base thickened, white floccose. Ring whitish, then concolorous, sub- 

 membranaceous, narrow, inferior, scaly beneath, torn, often fugacious. 

 Gills white, then whitish tinged with rose, and becoming rose colour 

 when rubbed, sinuato-adnate, or shortly decurrent, scarcely crowded, 

 narrow, 3mm. broad. Flesh pale liver colour, slightly yellowish in the st. 

 Spores white, ovoid-ellipsoid, 4 x 3/Lt. Among fir leaves. Nov. Rare. 



256. A. Jasonis Cke. & Massee. (=Lepiota amianthina (Scop.) Fr. 

 sec. Boud. Cke. Illus. no. 1113, t. 955. 



Jason and the golden fleece. 



P. 2-5-7-5 cm., golden yellow, disc tawny, fleshy, campanulate, then 

 expanded, with a distinct rounded umbo, granularly papillate, granules 

 innate; margin appendiculate with the fibrous veil. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 6- 

 9 mm., concolorous, equal, or slightly thickened at the base, squamu- 

 lose below the ring. Ring concolorous, distant, squarrose, torn. Gills 

 white, then pallid, adnate, scarcely crowded, thin. Flesh reddish. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 5/n. Smell strong. Caespitose. On 

 stumps. Sept. Rare. 



(b) Gills more or less decurrent. 



257. A. mellea (Vahl.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 332. 



Md, honey. 



P. 5-15 cm., ochraceous yellow, tawny, or bistre, covered with oliva- 

 ceous, or brownish hairy squamules, fleshy, convex, then flattened, and 

 depressed in the centre; margin paler, striate. St. 7-5-15 x -5-1 cm., 

 yellow, tawny, or bistre, often covered with olivaceous down below the 

 ring, becoming blackish with age, equal, or subbulbous at the base, 

 elastic, fibrillose, apex striate. Ring white, becoming discoloured, apical, 

 silky, membranaceous, thick, swollen at the margin. Gills whitish 

 flesh colour, then rufescent, adnate, decurrent by a tooth, subdistant. 

 Flesh white, becoming discoloured, floccose. Spores white, elliptical, 

 8-9 x 5-6 p,. Cystidia "on edge of gill basidia-like, 40-60 x 8-12ju," 

 Rick. Taste acrid. Edible. Caespitose. On old stumps, and buried 

 fragments of wood. July Dec. Very common, (v.v.) 



