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* Gills sinuate, adnexed. 



Armillaria bulbigera. A. & S. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thick, soft ; convex then 

 expanded, obtuse, glabrous but fibrillosely squamulose, espe- 

 cially near the margin, from fragments of the veil, soft, 

 brownish, or yellowish brick-red, dry ; gills broadly emar- 

 ginate, broad, at first rather crowded then distant, becoming 

 coloured ; stem 2-3 in. long, about 4- in. thick, cylindrical, 

 base with a distinctly marginate bulb, pale with blackish 

 fibrils, stuffed ; ring soon disappearing. 



Agaricus (Armillaria) bulbiger, Alb. & Schw., Consp.,p. 150 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 21 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 20. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Readily distinguished by the distinctly marginate bulb at 

 base of stem. 



Armillaria focalis. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh soft, thick at the disc, thin 

 towards the margin, convex then expanded, obtuse, dry, 

 rather shining, smooth, silky-fibrillose, reddish-tawny ; gills 

 <iinarginate and almost free, crowded, narrow, white then 

 pallid ; stem about 3 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, equal, not 

 tit all bulbous, pale tawny, more or less torn into fibrils, 

 solid ; ring rather large, median on the stem, oblique. 



Agaricus (Armillaria) focalis, Fries, Epicr., p. 20 : Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 21 ; Cke., Illustr., pi, 245. 



On the ground in pine woods, &c. 



Pileus 4 in. across, pale fawn-coloured; darker above, 

 slightly virgate, extreme margin involute ; stem 5 in. high, 

 1^ in. thick at the base, variously lacerated; mycelium 

 white, fibrillose, ring very broad (to which the specific name 

 alludes), superior ; odour farinaceous ; substance tender. 

 Almost agreeing in dimension with the Var. Goliath. 

 (B. & Br.) 



Var. goliath, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 5 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 21 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 31. 



Stem fibrous, solid, up to 8 in. long, 1 in. thick, usually 

 recumbent from the weight of the pilous, equal or attenu- 

 ated into a rooting base, white outside and inside, but tawny 



