Chapter 5
Differs from _L. granulosa_ by larger size and persistently red pileus.
=carcharias=, Pers. Smell strong. P. 2-4 cm. soon plane, sub.u.mb. pale flesh colour or yellowish-pink, granular; g. adnexed, white; s. 3-4 cm.
granular and coloured like pileus up to ring; sp. ----.
var. _Terrei_, B. and Br. P. orange-red, convex; s. nearly equal; g.
broad, ventricose.
[=tuberculata=, Brig. P. globoso-exp. cuticle thick, breaking into tubercles, pale tan; g. white; s. subbulbous, fibrillose.
[=venusta=, Bagl. P. convex, edge very thin, crenulate, sulcate, cuticle tawny cracking in the centre; g. adnexed by a tooth; s. solid, thickened upwards, peronate half way up.
[=Pauletii=, Fr. P. exp. bristling with spines, brownish; g. crowded; s.
short, white.
=granulosa=, Batsch. P. 2-3 cm. expanded, obtusely umb. scurfy or granular, rusty or brownish-orange, pale and h.o.a.ry when dry; s. 3-5 cm.
floccosely scaly and coloured like pileus up to ring; sp. ----.
Pileus often wrinkled, sometimes pale.
var. _rufescens_, B. and Br. Entirely white, becoming rufous when dry.
_L. amianthina_ differs in adnate gills and yellow flesh of stem.
Differs from _L. carcharia_ in absence of unpleasant smell.
=amianthina=, Scop. P. 2-2.5 cm. soon plane and sub.u.mb. granular, ochraceous, flesh yellow; g. adnate, yellowish; s. 3-5 cm. squamulose up to ring, flesh yellow; sp. ----.
var. _Broadwoodiae_, B. and Br. P. yellow; g. white.
=polysticta=, Berk. P. 2-3 cm. soon expanded, reddish or yellow-brown broken up into minute scales; g. free, yellowish; s. 2-4 cm. scaly and coloured like pileus up to ring; sp. ----.
***** _Cuticle of pileus dry, entire, not granular nor scaly; small, slender._
=parvannulata=, Lasch. P. 1-1.5 cm. expanded, sub.u.mb. silky, white or tinged yellow; g. free, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. white, fibrillose up to distant small spreading ring; sp. 4 2.5.
_L. erminea_ differs in superior, torn ring, glabrous pileus, and radishy smell.
=sistrata=, Fr. P. 2-4 cm. expanded, whitish, disc often tinged yellow or reddish, pruinose with glistening particles; g. nearly free, crowded; s. 3-5
_L. seminuda_ differs in mealy stem, and _L. mesomorpha_ in glabrous pileus and stem, and entire ring.
=seminuda=, Lasch. P. 2-3 cm. expanded, umbonate, whitish or tinged fleshcolour, mealy then naked; g. reaching the stem; s. 3-4 cm. whitish, mealy, ring small, superior; sp. 5 3.
_L. sistrata_ differs in fibrillose stem and pileus covered with glistening particles.
=Bucknallii=, B. and Br. P. 1-2 cm. convex, white with violet powder; g.
reaching stem; s. 3-5 cm. white with violet powder; sp. 7 3.
Smell strong, like gas-tar.
=ianthina=, Cke. P. 2 cm. expanded, umb. whitish, disc violet, fibrillose; g. free; s. 2-3 cm. wavy, white, ring distant, disappearing; sp. ----.
=mesomorpha=, Bull. P. about 1.5 cm. expanded, sub.u.mb. pale brown or yellowish, even, glabrous; g. free; s. 3-4 cm. pale, glabrous, ring superior; sp. ----.
[=denudata=, Rab. P. campan.-exp. pale sulphur, very thin, floccosely scurfy then naked; g. ventricose; s. subequal, with a minute very fugacious ring.
[=serena=, Fr. White. P. campan. glabrous; s. slender, subbulbous, ring thin, deciduous.
=martialis=, Cke. and Ma.s.s. P. 2-3. cm. soon plane, deep rose; g. free; s. 3-4 cm. pink up to broad ring; sp. 8 4.
B. _Cuticle of pileus viscid, not broken up._
[=demisannulata=, Secr. P. thin, umb. even; g. free, crowded, white; s.
nearly equal, with black fibrils, ring pendulous.
=medullata=, Fr. White. P. 3-5 cm. soon expanded, glabrous, viscid, veil in fragments at margin; g. free; s. 5-8 cm. dry, obsoletely squamulose below, ring torn; sp. ----.
Differs from _L. illinita_ in dry stem.
=glioderma=, Fr. P. 2.5-5 cm. campan. then convex, even, viscid reddish-bay; g. free; s. 5-8 cm. dry, whitish, densely squamulose up to torn ring; sp. ----.
=delicata=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. convex then plane, even, viscid, granular, rufescent or yellowish; g. free; s. 2-3 cm.; s. dry, whitish floccosely squamulose up to ring; sp. ----.
Differs from _L. glioderma_ in p. not being campanulate, and stem floccose, not squamose.
=illinita=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. white or tinged tan, sub.u.mb. glabrous, viscid; g. free; s. 5-7 cm. white, glutinous, ring obsolete; sp. ----.
Distinct from all species by glutinous stem.
[=pingua=, Fr. P. white or greyish, viscid, as is also the ring; s.
short, dry.
[=inoculata=, Fr. P. exp. obtuse, honey colour, even, viscid; g.
crowded, broad; s. abruptly v.a.g.i.n.ate by the veil.
=Georginae=, W. G. Sm. White. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. mealy, viscid, changing to crimson when touched, as do also the gills and stem.
[HIATULA, Fr.
[=Wynniae=, B. and Br. P. 2-3 cm. membranaceous, splitting along back of gills, pale; g. rather distant, white; st. 2-3 cm. hollow.
Introduced from Queensland. Phosph.o.r.escent.
ARMILLARIA, Fr.
* _Gills sinuate, adnexed._
=bulbigera=, A. and S. P. 7-10 cm. brownish, dry, fibrillose near margin; g. emarginate; s. marginately bulbous, pale, ring soon disappearing; sp. 7-10 5.