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Armillaria nardosmia (Ellis) Sacc. 

 Almond Armillaria 



Plate 2. Figure 3. X 1 



Pileus fleshy, firm, solitary, 6-9 cm. broad; surface fibrillose, 

 whitish to lilac-avellaneous or pale-bay streaked with white, 

 variegated with brown spots, especially near the center; cuticle 

 thick, tough, separable; context white, thick and compact on the 

 disk, thin toward the margin, odor aromatic ; lamellae crowded, 

 subventricose, slightly emarginate, whitish or cremeous ; spores 

 subglobose, 7^; stipe solid, fibrous, not bulbous, sheathed below 

 by the brown, velvety veil, 7 cm. long, 1-3 cm. thick ; annulus 

 narrow, spreading, uneven on the edge. 



This species was originally described from New Jersey and is 

 known to occur sparingly in oak or mixed woods from Massa- 

 chusetts to Virginia in the eastern United States. I have it from 

 Massachusetts, G. E. Morris; Long Island, Dr. Bauer; Forked 

 River, New Jersey, Ballon; Newfield, New Jersey, Ellis; Ta- 

 koma Park, Maryland, Shear, T. A. Williams; Falls Church, 

 Virginia, Mrs. Murrill. Hard reports it from Chillicothe, Ohio, 

 and says that its taste and odor of almonds or spikenard dis- 

 appears in cooking. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



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