b AGARICINI.
Variable in size and colour. Pileus 4 in. or more, viscid when moist, shining
when dry, at first there are a few broad scales, but these soon vanish ; the
cuticle easily peels off. Stem 6 in. or more high, J -1 in. thick, attenuated
upwards, obtuse at the base, where it is furnished with a volva, which is
adnate for about an inch, and then, in general, closely surrounding it like a
sheath, but sometimes the margin is expanded. The volva is easily overlooked
if care be not taken to dig up the very base of the stem. Gills free, ventri-
cose, broadest in front, often imbricated, white. Smell scarcely any,—Eng.
FI. Spores spherical '00032 X '0003S in.'—W. G. S.
2 . A g a iic u s (Am a n ita ) Cecilise. B . ^ B r. “ Grey
ringless Amanita.”
Piletis at first ovate, then campanulate, clothed with scattered
subpersistent warts ; margin grooved j stem stuffed, silky above,
squamiilose below; volva soon breaking up.—B. f Br. Ann. N .H .
no. 663. Berk. Outl. t. 3 ,/. 5. Fr. Icon. t. 11 ? P r ic e f 112.
In woods. Aug. Sept. Common in Epping Forest.
Colour mouse-grey. Distinguished by its less perfect volva and stuffed stem,
which does not simply contain a few cottony fibres, as that of A. vaginatus.
Pileus at first semi-elliptic, densely and uniformly clothed with the thick
mouse-coloured volva, which at length splits irregularly below from a slight
prominence at the base of the stem, but by no means vaginate; then cam-
pannlate, obtuse, 3-4 in. across, margin sulcate, dingy yellow, either quite
smooth, or more or less clothed -with the depressed or even acutely warty remains
of the volva. Stem 4 in. or more high, J in. thick, attenuated upwards,
above silky, transversely or obliquely rimóse, below squamulose from fragments
of the volva, spongy within, with occasional cavities, not truly bulbous;
ring none, gills thick, sometimes forked or anastomosing, the shorter ones
abruptly truncate behind, quite free, at length remote, interstices venous.
Smell none. Taste sweet.—M. J. B. Spores oval "00034 X 'OOOfiiu.—W. G. S.
3 . A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) ad n a tu s.
Amanita.”
Smith. “ Adnate gilled
Pileus fleshy, firm, smooth, rather moist, convex, then expanded,
huff beneath the cuticle ; margin extending beyond the gills ;
stem stuffed, at length hollow, pale huff, rough, flbrillose ; ring
none ; volva lax, adnate, or almost obsolete, white, pubescent, remaining
in woollypatches on the pileus; gills white, crowded, truly
adnate. Saund. 4" Sm. t. 20.
Woody places, amongst oak and holly. Kingsdon Wood and
Alfoxen, Combe, amongst the Quantock Hills, Somerset.—
{J. A . 0.)
Pileus fieshy, very firm, not brittle, smooth, rather moist, pale buff-yellow,
2J-3in. across, margin exceeding the gills; gills white, crowded, truly adnate ;
stem stuffed, at length hollow, pale buff, rough, and fibrillose, 2-4 in. high ;
ring absent; volva lax, adnate, or almost obsolete, white and pubescent, remaining
in woolly masses on the pileus ; flesh firm, almost rigid, as in Bus-
sula, white, stained sienna-buffunder the cuticle of the pileus; spores slightly
oval, -0004 X -0003 in.—IP. G. S.
4 .
AGARICINI. '
Sect. 2. Phalloidem—yolya. free and lax.
A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) v e zn u s . B u ll. “ Spring Amanita.”
Pileus at first ovate, then expanded, rather dejDi’essed, viscid,
white ; margin naked, smooth ; stem stuffed, equal floccose, base
bulbous ; volva closely embracing
ring reflexed ; gills iv e e .-B u ll. t. 108. V itt Mang t. 4L •
1. 156,/. 3-4. Smith P. M .f. 8. Price f . 3. Gard. Ghron. ( 1861),
p. iSO, fig.
In woods. Early summer. Poisonous.
Altovether white. Distinguished from white forms of A.phalloides by its
eteer f ie a f tin g voiva, and more ovate pileus when young, and from the
white forms of A. vaginatus by the presence of a ring.
5 A g a z i c u s (Am a n ita ) p h a llo id e s . Pr. “ Stinking
Amanita.”
Pileus campanulate,then expanded, obtuse, viscid; mm-gin even,
reg u la r; stem hollow above, attenuated ; volva bulbous, free
above, loose ; r i n g membranaceous ; gills rounded, ^entncose^--
Mvc i V 13. Epicr. p. 4. Vaill. t. 14, / 5. Paul, t 155,
l Ü f . 1-2. Berk. Outl.pl. 8, f . l . (right figure.) Smith. P .M J .
1. Eng. FI. v. p . 1. Kromh. t. 28, / 1-10. Coria Sturm t oo.
Price f. 28. Barla, t. 4. Oonn. 4 Babh. 1. 1. 10, f . 1. Vent. t. 40.
A. bulbosus, Bull. t. 2 . A. vernalis, Bolt. t. 48. A. verrucosus,
F l.L o n d .t.3 1 2 ; f . i - 6.
W o o d s , and their borders. Aug.—Nov. Common. _
’ [Pennsylvania.]
poisonous. Spores spherical '0003 in. W» 6-. ¿y.
6 . A g a z i c u s (A m a n ita ) mappa. Batsoh. “ Delicate Amanita.”
Pileus convex, then plane, without separable cuticle margin
nearly even ; flesh white ; stem stuffed, then hollow, cylindrical,
nearly smooth, bulbous, nearly globose at the base ;
free margin acute and narrow i l l i
n e x e d .-D r. Epicr.p. 6. Gonn. ^ Da&L 1. 1 11,/. 1. Paid. i. 158,
f.1-2. Vitt. Mang. 1.11. f t? 7/ /
N .H .n o .1 3 8 . Pricef.OO. Vent. i 0 , f i l - 2 .
577 F.D.G.H.M. A. venenosa, Pers. Gom. t. 2. bchcejf. t. ¿ i i .
Sow. t. 286 (leftfigure.) Gurtist. 312 (rightfigure.)
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