110 ARMILLARIA 



var. tabescens (Scop.) Rea. (= Clitocybe tabescens (Scop.) Fr.; 

 Agaricus gymnopodius Bull. sec. Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 51, 

 cited in text under t. 61, as Clitocybe tabescens (Scop.) Fr. 



Tabesco, I waste away. 



Differs from the type in the complete absence of the ring. Woods, 

 and hedgerows. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



258. A. denigrata Fr. (=Pholiota erebia Fr. sec. Lange). Fr. Icon. t. 20. 



Denigro, I colour very black. 



P. 3-6 cm., dark brown, convex, then plane, obtuse, slightly viscid, 

 looking as if covered with minute drops of water, owing to the presence of 

 elevated warts. St. 5-6 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid fuscous, brown at the base, 

 equal, or ventricose and attenuated, elastic, fibrillosely striate. Ring 

 paler, superior, membranaceous, narrow, entire, fugacious. Gills pale 

 brown, then darker, sinuato-decurrent, narrow. Flesh bistre, firm. 

 Solitary, or caespitose. At the base of old trees, and in garden 

 humus. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



259. A. citri (Inzenga) Fr. Citrus, orange. 

 P. 5 cm., sulphur yellow, convex, then plane, subumbonate, fleshy; 



margin becoming white, crenulate. St. 57-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., whitish, 

 base rufescent, equal, apex white floccose. Gills whitish, adnate, 

 crowded. Spores white, "subglobose, 5 x 4jn" Massee. Smell of 

 new meal. Caespitose. On stumps. Rare. 



(c) Gills equal behind, st. externally subcartilaginous. 



260. A. subcava (Schum.) Fr. Sub, somewhat; cava, hollow. 



P. 25 cm., white, umbo umber, submembranaceous, convexo-plane, 

 viscid, striate to the middle. St. 7-9 cm. x 6 mm., white, fistulose up- 

 wards, equal, slightly dotted below the ring. Ring white, inferior, torn. 

 Gills white, decurrent, plane. Flesh white, thick. Fir woods. July 

 Nov. Rare. 



261. A. mucida (Schrad.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 58, t. 16. 



Mucida, slimy. 



P. 3-8 cm., white, or grey, thin, almost diaphanous, hemispherical, 

 then expanded, obtuse, more or less radiato-wrinkled, glutinous ; margin 

 striate when thinner. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 4-15 mm., white, base thickened 

 and fuliginously scaly, rigid, striate above the ring. Ring white, 

 becoming fuscous from the dried gluten, superior, dependent, often 

 sulcate. Gills white, then yellowish, rounded behind, decurrent by a 

 tooth, distant, broad, lax. Flesh white, mucilaginous. Spores white, 

 globose, 15-17/u,, multi-guttulate. Cystidia none. Taste mild. Edible. 

 On beeches, rarely on oaks and birches. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



