32 AGARICUS. 



Armillaria. down, soon becoming pale, striate at the margin, everywhere beset 

 with fuscous-blackish, sometimes paler hairy squamules, fleshy at 

 the disc, continuous with the stem, otherwise thin, convex then 

 flattened, and at length depressed in the centre. Stem stuffed 

 then hollow, elastic, externally rigid and sulcate, internally spongy ; 

 floccose or rather naked below the ring, often light-yellow villous 

 at the base. Ring nearly apical, silky, swollen at the circumfer- 

 ence, sometimes however more scanty, in the form of a cortina, 

 disappearing. Gills at first adnate, then decurrent with a tooth, 

 somewhat distant, pallid, commonly whitish flesh-colour, at length 

 rufescent, and white-mealy with the abundant spores. 



Clay-colour in rainy weather ; in dry weather pale but opaquely ochraceous 

 or honey-colour. Stem becoming pale, when old often passing into fuligi- 

 nous or olivaceous. Very variable in its dimensions. The more remarkable 

 varieties are : (a) stem stout, very bulbous Kalchbr ; (b) Gills sulphur-coloured 

 Weinm ; (c) Colour tawny Gonn. & Rab. iv. t . 3 ; (d) Colour becoming fuscous. 



On and near stumps. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



Solitary, gregarious or densely csespitose. Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 9x6 

 mk. K.; lox 8 mk. B.; 9 x 5-6 mk. IV. G.S. Edible but very tough. Frequently 

 eaten in Europe. Persoon condemns it, and Greville quotes an instance in 

 which Paulet tried its effect upon a dog, with a fatal result after twelve hours. 

 Name mel, honey. Honey-coloured. Fl. Dan. 1. 1013. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 44. Hym. Eur. p. 44. Berk. Out. p. 96. t. \.f.\. C. Hbk. n. 36. Illust. 

 PL 32. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 33. Grev. t. 332. Price t. 16, 32. Badh. i. t. 

 i6.f. 3. ii. t. 9. f. 3. Krombh. t. 43. f. 2-6. Viltad. Fung. mang. t. 3. Vivian 

 t. 51. Fr.dtl. Sv. t. 36. Hoffm. Ic. t. 21. f. i. A. obscurus Schceff. t. 74. 

 A. annularius Bull. t. 377, 540. /. 3. A. stipitis Sow. t. 101. A. mutabilis Fl. 

 Bat. t. 824. A. laricinus Bolt. t. 19. ? A. millus Sow. t. 184. ? 



58. A. subcavus Schum. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, white, 

 umbo umber, somewhat membranaceous, convexo-plane, viscous, 

 striate to the middle, the slightly fleshy disc umbonate. Stem 9 

 cent. (sYz in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, fistulose upwards, equal, 

 slightly dotted, even above the inferior and torn ring, white. Gills 

 plane, decurrent, white. 



Slejider. More allied to the glutinous Lepiotce than to neighbouring species, 

 but the gills are figured as decurrent. 



On the ground. Cirencester, 1873. Nov - 



Name sub, and cavus, hollow. From the partially hollow stem. Schum. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1843. F r - Hym. Eur. p. 46. Monogr. i. p. 45. B. &= Br. n. 

 1403, entirely white. 



*** Collybiae annulatae. Gills equal behind, &C. 



59. A. mucidus Schrad. Pileus commonly shining white, 

 thin, almost diaphanous, hemispherical then expanded, obtuse, 



