WHITE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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plants are 6-8 cm. high, the cap 4-7 cm. broad, and the stem 6-8 

 mm. in thickness. It occurs in woods. It is known by its viscid 

 piieus, the orange brown or ochraceous rufus color of the pileus and 

 stem, and the color of the stem being confmed to the superficial layer, 

 which becomes torn into concentric floccose scales, forming numerous 

 minute floccose irregular rings of color around the stem. 



The pileus is convex to expanded, with an umbo, and the edge 

 inrolled, fleshy, thin, viscid, ochraceous rufus (in specimens collected 



Figure 86. Armillaria aurantia Schaeff. ( = Tricholoma peckii Howe). Cap 

 orange-brown or ochraceous nifus, viscid ; floccose scales on stem same 

 color (natural size). Copyright. 



by myself), darker on the umbo, and minutely scaly from tufts of 

 hairs, and the viscid cuticle easily peeling off. The gills are narrow, 

 crowded, slightly adnexed, or many free, white, becoming brown dis- 

 colored where bruised, and in drying brownish or rufus. The spores 

 are minute, globose to ovoid, or rarely sub-elliptical when a little 

 longer, with a prominent oil globule usually, 3-3.5x3-5 /i, some- 

 times a little longer when the elliptical forms are presented. The 

 stem is straight or ascending, even, very floccose scaly as the pileus 

 is unrolled from it, scales same color as the pileus, the scales running 



