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tJnder trees. Not common. Poisonous.
Colour variable. Habit like that of a small A.phalloides, from which it is
distinguished by its less developed volva, which, instead of being cup-shaped
IS little more than a mere rim fringing the bulb.—Af. J .B .
Sect, 3. Mascarice—^volva cut round, lower part connate with the
stem.
7 . A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) m u s ca r iu s. L. “ Fly Amanita.”
Pileus convex, then expanded, clothed with scattered warts, the
remains of the volva, margin striate, flesh beneath the viscid cuticle
yellowish ; stem stuffed, bulbous at the base ; volva adnate,
concentric, scaly ; ring lax, d e fle x ed g ills reachiugthe stem and
forming deourrent lines upon it.— Grev. t. 54. Eng. FI. y.p . 4.
Huss. i. 1. 1. Gard. Chron. (1860), p. 169. Kromb, t. 9, f . 1-19.’
Corda Sturm t. 54. Price f. 56. Barla. t. 2. Vent. t. l , f . 3-4 .
Sow .t.2 S 6 (rig ktfig .) Smith, P .M. f . IS. G o o k e ,B .F .t.i. Gonnl
4 Babh. i. t. 6.
Woods, especially fir and birch. Aug.—Nov. Poisonous.
[Pennsylvania.]
Pileus 3-7 in. broad, orange, scarlet, sometimes brownish, beset with super-
ficial conical warts, viscid when moist, margin thin and striate. Gills white
broad, veutricose, free or slightly adnexed. Stem 4-9 in. high, J -1 in. thick’
utuffed with cottony fibres, sometimes hollow. Bulb covered with close conical
scales, the remains of the volva. Highly narcotic, producing intoxication
delirium, and death. Spores ’00032 X ’00025 in.— W. G. S. (Pi. I I ., fig. 1.)
8 . A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) e x c e ls u s . Fr. “ Tall Amanita.”
Pileus convex, then plane, at first innato-fihrillose, clothed with
irregular, mealy, evanescent warts ; margin nearly even ; flesh
white ; stem stuffed, cylindrical, scaly below, bulbous, immarginate
; volva evanescent ; gills ventricose, free, rounded behind.
—Fr. E picr.p. 8. Berk. Outl. pi. 3, f . 3. E n g .F l.y .p .5. Kromb.
t. 29, f . 14-17. Paul. 1.159. Gonn. 4 Babh. i. t. 8, f . l .
In woods. Quality doubtful. [Carolina, U .S .]
^ Colour brownish. Margin sometimes sulcate. Pileus 4 in. broad, slightly
viscid, smooth, with a few more or less conical irregular scattered warts
easily rubbed off; cuticle tough and clammy, easily peeling off; gills obtuse
before and bshiud, but broader in front, truly free, half an inch broad the
margin slightly uneven. Stem G in. or more high, 1 in. thick, going deep’into
the earth, scaly below the ring, scales thick and squarrose, above the ring
the scales are closely adpressed, their interstices finely silky, apex striate
tolerably firm, juicy, white ; ring half way down, large, substriate within’
externally downy. Taste pleasant—Af./ . B. Spores’0003 X ’00022 in .-I
9 . A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) p a n th e z in u s.
Amanita.”
D.C. “ Spotted
Pileus convex, then expanded, margin striate, flesh under the
viscid pellicle white ; stem stuffed, then hollow, nearly smooth ;
volva at the base ocreate, with the margin entire, obtuse, and free ;
gills attenuated, free.—Fr. E picr.p. 5. Eng. F I. y. p. 4. FI. Dan.
i. 1911,/. 2. Vitt. Mang. t. 39. Vent.t.3. Kromb.t.29, f . 10-13.
Paul. 1. 1 6 0 ,/ 2. Schceff. t. 90. Barla. t. 7 ,/. 1-3. Boques. t. 21,f .
2-3. Gonn. 4 Babh. i. 1. 1.
In woods or pastures near trees. [Pennsylvania.]
Brownish, not red orreddish brown, as in A. muscarius. Pileus, 4 in. broad,
with flat, mealy warts, which rub off with difficnlty, glutinous when moist;
when dry, soft to the touch like kid leather. Stem 5 in. high, half an inch
thick, stuffed, then more or less hollow, silky, and even, or torn into reflexed
scales; ring deflexed; volva quite smooth, connate, the extreme margin
only free all round.—M .J .B . Not poisonous. Spores,’0003 X ’00U19 in.—
W.G.S.
10. A g a z icu s ^Amanita) stz o b ilifo zm is.
Amanita.”
Fr. “ Fir-cone
Pileus convex, then expanded, with persistent warts ; margin
even ; flesh compact, white ; stem solid, floccoso-squamose, bulbous,
base subterraneous ; volva with the margin acute, concentric
; ring torn; gills rounded behind, and free.—Epicr.p. 5. Vitt.
Mang. t. 9. Vent. t. 4. Paul. 1. 162. Bull. t. 593. Berk. Outl. t. 3,
/ 2. Smith P . M .f. 10. Gonn. 4 Babh. i. t. 7 , / 3. Ann. N .H . no.
662.
Borders of woods. Bare. Esculent.
Pileus when young subglobose, bulb of the stem conical below, rooting, its
border sometimes incised all round, sometimes even, floccose above to the edge
of the pileus ; scales of pileus large, wart-like, with a brown disc, and white
floccose border, persistent, angular. Pilens, when expanded, 8-9in. across, at
length quite smooth, margin extending beyond the gills, white, cinereous, &o.
Stem 6-7 in. high, IJ in. thick, firm, solid, bulb not properly scaly, veil large ;
gills rounded behind, the shorter ones denticulate at the base. Odour and
taste pleasant.—M. J. B .—‘ ‘ I t attains a very large size in well-grown specimens.
The persistent patches on the top are not unlike the scales of a fircone,
hence its specific name; the gills do not reach the stem. Average size
of spores, ’00054 X ’00035 in .”—IF. G.S.
Sect. 4. Validæ—volva thin and friable.
11. A g a z icu s (Am a n ita ) z u b e s c en s . P. “ Reddish Amanita.”
Pileus convex,then expanded ; warts unequal, mealy, scattered ;
flesh becoming reddish ; stem stuffed, attenuated upwards, squamulose
; ring entire ; gills attenuated, reaching the stem and form-
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