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HYMENOMYCETES 
grassy woods in sum. and ant. A large, lax, umbonate 
species, abundantly distinctive in the grooved stem and 
crowded gills. 
ARMILLARIA 
( Avmilla , a ring—from the ringed stem) 
A. niellea (mel, honey—from the honey-coloured pileus), 
“ Honey Agaric.” Plate XIII. 1. 
P. 2-5 in., often dark or covered with olive down when 
young, becoming paler, usually honey colour, sprinkled with 
small blackish-brown scales; margin striate. G. adnate, 
then more or less decurrent, rather distant, white at first, 
then brownish; powdered at maturity with the copious 
white spores. 5 . 3-5 in., robust, more or less grooved, 
dingy ochreous; base often covered with yellowish down, 
stuffed, then hollow. R. large, tumid. One of the com¬ 
monest of our autumnal fungi, growing in dense tufts at the 
base of stumps and living trees. Sometimes solitary. Smell 
strong, unpleasant. A remarkably variable species. Greville 
wrote of it: “ There is scarcely a plant more apt to assume 
different aspects under different conditions than the present 
one, and yet, to an experienced eye, there is always a 
peculiarity about it, not easily expressed in words, which 
is sufficient to distinguish it.” 
A. mucida (from the slimy pileus), “Slimy Beech Agaric.” 
Plate XIII. 3. 
P. 1J-3 in., obtuse, often wrinkled, very glutinous, 
usually shining white, but sometimes olive-brown or even 
sooty. F. very thin, almost diaphanous. G. broadly ad- 
nexed, distant, white. S. 1^-4 in., slender, ascending, 
glabrous, white, often with blackish scales at the base. 
R. near the apex of the stem, large, white. Solitary or 
csespitose. Frequent on beech. Typical specimens are 
easily distinguished by the shining white of every part, the 
glutinous pileus, and ample ring. 
