Vol. 27 



No. 12 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



DECEMBER 1900 



New Species of Fungi 



By Charles H. Peck 



Amanita submaculata 



Pileus convex or subcampanulate, glabrous, shining, even on 

 the margin, dark brown, more or less marked by whitish stripes 

 °f spots ; lamellae thin, subdistant, free, white ; stem equal, bulbous, 

 glabrous, solid, white, the annulus large, membranous, white. 



Pileus 7-9 cm. broad ; stem 7-9 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick. 



Scattered or cespitose. Thin woods and open places. North 

 Carolina. July. Miss M. L. Wilson. 



The species is easily recognized by the white spots on the 

 pileus. The specimen examined yielded no spores. 



Amanita radicata 



Pileus subglobose, becoming convex, dry, verrucose, white, 



Margin even, flesh firm, white, odor resembling that of chloride of 



hme ; lamellae close, free, white ; stem solid, deeply radicating, 



swollen at the base or bulbous, floccose or mealy at the top, white, 



veil thin, floccose or mealy, white, soon lacerated and attached in 



fragments to the margin of the pileus or evanescent ; spores broadly 



elliptic, 7.5-10// long, 6-7 /abroad. 



Pileus 5-10 cm. broad; stem 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 8-12 mm. 

 thick. 



Woods. New Jersey. July. E. B. Sterling. 



The species is closely related to A. strobiliformis, from which 

 * is separated by its uniformly white color, radicating stem, peculiar 

 °dor and smaller spores. The warts of the pileus are numerous 

 l ar ge and firm. They are either white or brown, or white with 



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