Armillaria. 15 



nearly free ; s. 3 5 cm. stout, base narrowed, brownish floccose up to 

 ring, white above ; sp. . 



Differs from A. aurantia in deeply emarginate, broad, whitish 

 gills. 



[sauamea, Barla. Smell like cucumber. P. convex then exp. 

 reddish cinnamon, covered with brown-red scales; edge incurved; 

 g. broad, subdecur. whitish tinged red ; s. subventricose with a long 

 tapering base, reddish-brown and scaly up to torn ring, white above ; 

 flesh- white, saffron when broken. 



Allied to Armitt. robusta but larger. 



[Caussetta, Barla. Smell like cucumber. P. exp. depr. dry, silky, 

 squamulose at centre, rather viscid when moist, brick-red, edge 

 incurved then spreading ; g. broad, pale or tinged red ; s. stout, 

 narrowed at base, fibrillose and reddish up to ring, white above; 

 flesh white, reddish when broken. 



[caligata, Viv. Smell strong. P. exp. tawny, spotted with 

 adpressed silky scales ; g. emarginate ; s. solid, with brownish con- 

 centric scales below the membranous persistent ring. 



[megalopoda. Bres. Smell strong. P. convex, exp. or depr. even, 

 glabrous, rather viscid, chestnut ; g. crowded, whitish then straw- 

 colour ; s. brownish-squanmlose up to median ring, white above; 

 sp. glob. 56. 



[luteovirens, A. and S. All except white squamulose stem 

 straw-colour ; p. torn into squamules, greenish when mature ; ring 

 imperfect. 



aurantia, Schaeff. P. 5 8 cm. rusty orange ; g. adnexed ; 

 s. & 8 cm. stout, orange and concentrically squamose up to ring, 

 white above ; sp. - . 



[dehiscens, Viv. P. hemispher. then depr. yellowish ochre; g. 

 adnexo-decur., broad ; s. cylindric, scaly, viscid, ring very narrow, 

 persistent. 



ramentacea, Bull P. 5 8 cm., obtuse, whitish or yellowish 

 with darker squamules ; g. adnexed becoming free ; s. 3 5 cm. with 

 brown squamules up to the oblique fugitive ring; sp. - . 



[Ambrosii, Bres. P. convex, exp. dry, soft, floccosely-downy, 

 snow-white, edge append. ; g. white ; s. even above ring, floccose 

 below, white ; ring inferior, torn, deciduous, sp. 4 5 x 2'5. 



[cingulata, Fr. P. thin umb. greyish brown, squamosely fibril- 

 lose ; g. greyish white ; s. even, ring median. 



[scruposa, Paulet. P. exp. glabrous, rough with contorted 

 ridges, subfuscous ; g. sinuato-adnate ; s. solid, equal, rooting, ring 

 firm, narrow. 



[albosericea, Brig. White. P. exp. broadly umb., even; g. 

 crowded ; s. silky, base tuberous, ring remote, fugacious. 



constricta, Fr. All white. P. 3 5 cm. obtuse, dry, glabrous, 

 silky ; g. emarginate, adnexed, or almost free ; s. 3 6 cm. solid, 

 fibrillose or squamulose, ring apical, narrow; sp. 



Much stouter than A. subcava. 



