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wliite then tiuged witli rufous ; stem about 3 in. long, ^-1 in. 

 thick, equal or slightly attenuated upwards, with tawny- 

 orange, concentrically arranged squamules up to the obso- 

 lete ring, shining white and exuding drops of water in 

 damp weather above the ring. .< 



Agaricus (Armillaria) aurantius. Fries, Hym. Eur., p, 41 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 22. 



Agaricus aurantius, SchaefFer, Ic, t. 27. 



In pine woods. 



Varying a good deal in the nature and frequency of the 

 scales. 



This is doubtful as a British species. We have only 

 heard of the Scotch specimens (lUustr., t. 33), which belong 

 to Ag. rdbustus. (Cke.) 



Armillaria ramentacea. Bull. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, fleshy ; convex then expanded, 

 becoming almost plane, obtuse or gibbous, at length de- 

 pressed and revolute, dry, whitish, or yellowish, cuticle 

 broken up into darker, floccose, adpressed scales; gills 

 emarginate, adnexed, seceding and becoming free, 3-4 lines 

 broad, thin, crowded at first then rather distant, white then 

 yellowish ; stem 1-2 in. long, about ^ in. thick, base often 

 thickened, white, pruinose; below the oblique, narrow, 

 fugitive ring, variegated with brown, depressed squamules, 

 solid. 



Agaricus ramentaceus, BulliarJ, Champ. Trance, t. 595, f. 3 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 22 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 71. 



On the ground, under pines, &c. 



Colour of pileus variable, pallid, whitish, or with a 

 yellowish or rufescent tinge, squamules and the punctate 

 disc darker. SmeU unpleasant. (Pries.) 



Armillaria haematites. B. & Br. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, fleshy ; hemispherical then more 

 or less expanded, liver-coloured, rather hispid when dry ; 

 yills adnato-decurrent, narrow, whitish with a red tinge; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, thickened at the base, 

 solid, coloured like the pileus, whitish above the superior, 

 spongy ring. 



Agaricus (^Armillaria') haematites, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1635; Cke., Hdbk., p. 22; Cke., Illustr., pi. 45. 



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