Series 1. Leucospori. Spores white (Plate ii).
The snecies bearing white spores seem higher in type than those producing
rolniired snores. Most of the former are firm, and many persistent, whilst,
Mwe approach the black spored Agarics, there is a greater tendency to
6fi1innesce. The spores of the Leucospori are mostly oval, sometimes nearly
round, generally very regular, but sometimes spiiiulose. They vary in size ;
and while containing the largest as well as the smallest known spores, are
M a rule small, generally white, but sometimes dingy, or with a suggestion
of vellow, or pink. As a rule, none of the Leucospori grow on dung or in
r a i places, whilst in the darker and black-spored groups these habitats are
the ru le .-W . G. S.
Sub-Gen. 1. A m a n ita . Pers. Syn., p . 2 4 6 .
Veil universal at first, completely enveloping the young plant,
distinct and free from the cuticle of the pileus ; pileus convex,
then expanded, not decidedly fleshy; stem distinct from the
hymenophore, ringed or ringless, furnished with a volva, tree and
lax connate with the base, or friable and nearly obsolete ; gills
free from the stem.—Hab. On the ground, mostly in woods and
uncultivated places.—(PZ. II.,fig . 1 , A. muscarius.)
This subgenus is remarkable for the great development of the veil, which
at first entirely envelopes the young plant in a thick clothy wrapper ; as the
fungus reaches maturity the veil is ruptured, and part remains in scattered
patches on the pileus (e), whilst part forms a more or less complete cup or
volva at the base (c ); when there are no fragments on the pi.eus the veil
has been ruptured in one place, and the whole mass remains at the base ;
this is often the case in Agaricus phalloidesfv. Some of the species have
the stem furnished with a ring (n), which is part of the veil, whilst three
species are ringless (or more properly, fie nng is i ■
some species the veil is thick, and greatly developed, whilst in others it is
thin and friable, and both volva and patches are evanescent; the higher
forms oi Amanita stand alone, from the stem being furnished with a «olm
and ring. Some of the species are edible, otners highly poisonous.— W. G. S.
1.
Sect. 1. VaginatcB—ring obsolete.
A g a x icu s (Am a n ita ) v a g in a tu s . Bull. “ Sleek
Amanita.”
Pileus thin, campauulate, then nearly plane, margin membranaceous,
deeply sulcate ; stem fistulöse, attenuated, fragile, floccu-
loso-squamose ; volva sheathing, loose ; gills free, white, then
pallid.—Berifc. Outl. t. iii, fig. 4. Eng. FI. v .p . 2. ffuss. n t. 34.
Bull. t. 98,512. Vitt. Mang. 1. 16. Lenz. f . 2. Kromb. 1. 1 ,/. 1-5, i.
10 f. 6-9, i. 3 0 ,/. 13-14. YZ. Da«, i. 1014,2142,/. 2. Oard.Ghron.
(1861), p. 97. Oonn. ^ Babh. i. t. 7 ,/. 1. Barla. t. 5. Vent. t. 5.
Far. albida. A. nivalis, G r e v .t.l8. E n g .F l.y . p-3. Paul.t.
1 5 1 , / 1 -2 .
In woods and under trees. Common. [United States.]