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PLATE 40.
A g a e i c u s (A m a n i ta ) s t k a n g u l a t u s , F r.
Frie s, Ilym. Mon. i. ji. 3 ; Vel. Act. F o rk . 1859. F r. Icon. t. 11. Price,
f. 119. B. & Br. Ann. N. H . No. 063. Be rk. Outl. p. 99, t. 3, f. 5.
Cooke, Handbook, p. 0.
A maxita s tip ite ju n io re farcto, seuiore subcavo; anuulo obsoleto; pileo carnoso,
margiiie stric to dein su lc a to ; lamellis liberis, confertis.
Pileus fleshy, caraqianulate th en flattened, obtuse, th re e to four inclies
or more wide, glabrous, viscid, of a livid cliestnut colour, b u t usually b e coming
pale, generally variegated with broad crowded scales and afterwards
entirely covered; margin stria ted th en deeply furrowed, almost pectinate ;
stem entirely stuffed wlien young, nearly liollow when older, closely sheathed
a t th e base by tlie adh e ren t vo lva ; gills free, crowded, ventricose, shining.
In woods, very ra re .—Fries.
Pileus a t first ovate th en campanulate, sc attered witli suhpe rsistent
warts ; margin g rooved; stem stuffed, siUcy above, squamulose below; volva
soon breaking up.—B . é B r .
Colour mouse-grey. Distinguished by its less perfect volva and stuffed
stem, which does n o t simply contain a few cottony fibres as th a t of A .
vaginatus, Bull. 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 a t th e base of tlie stem, b u t by no means
vaginate, th en campanulate-ohtuse, three to four inches a c ro s s ; margin
silicate, dingy yellow, eith e r quite smooth or more or less clothed with th e
depressed or even actually warty remains of the volva ; stem four inches or
more high, thre e -fo u rth s of an inch thick, atten u a ted uqrwards, above silky,
transversely or obliquely rimóse, below squamulose from fragments of the
volva, spongy witliin, with occasional cavities, n o t tru ly b ulbous; ring
n o n e ; gills thick, sometimes forked or anastomosing, th e sh o rte r ones
ab ru p tly tru n c a te behind, quite free, a t length remote, interstices venous.
Smell n o n e . Taste Rv/eet. ~ M . J . B . (/Sórores oval, -00034" x -0006" ) —
W. G. S.
T h is species was, we believe, originally described by F rie s, from a single
sp e c im en ; and th e same p lan t was afterwards published by Berkeley and
Broome under the name of A . Cecilia;. Tliough a t one time very ra re about
London, it is now very abundant in all directions, being equally common
with A . vaginatus in E p p in g Fo re st. Our specimens were gathered in the
neighbourhood of Beigate, Surrey, and show th e variable n a tu re of volva
and pileus.
P l a t e 40.— F ig . 1, Agaricus {Amanita) strangulatus, F r. F ig . 9. section of ditto.
F ig . 3, spores, x 700 dia.— IF. TF. S .