Leucosporae 



In woods. Uncommon. August to October. Amamta. 



Fetid, poisonous. Stevenson. 



Spores spheroid or subspheroid, io-i6ju, K.; 8/* W, P.; sub- 

 globose, 8-io/A Massee. 

 POISONOUS. 

 I think it a variety of A. phalloides. 



A. plmlloi'des Fr. Gr. phallus-like. (Plate VI, figs. 2, 3, p. 6.) 

 Pileus 3-4 in. broad, commonly shining white or lemon-yellow, fleshy, 

 oval bell-shaped, then expanded, obtuse, covered over with a pellicle 

 which is viscid (not glutinous) in wet weather, naked, rarely sprinkled 

 with one or two fragments of the volva, the regular margin even . Stem 

 3-5 in. long, % in. and more thick, solid downward, bulbous, hollow 

 and attenuated upward, rather smooth, white. Ring superior, reflexed, 

 slightly striate, swollen, commonly entire, white. Volva more or less 

 buried in the soil, bulbous, semifree, bursting open in a torn manner at 

 the apex, with a lax border. Gills free, ventricose, 4 lines broad, shin- 

 ing white. Fries. 



PileilS very variable in color, commonly white or yellow (A. citrina 

 Pers.), becoming green (A. viridis Pers.), olivaceous and occasionally 

 variegated with tiger spots ; in late autumn with the disk almost black 

 but whitish round the margin. Odor somewhat fetid, but little remark- 

 able as compared with that of A. virosa. 



In woods. Frequent. August to November. 



A very POISONOUS and dangerous species. Stevenson. 



Spores 8-9/u- W.G.S.; 8-io/* B.; 7-91". diam. Massee; globose, 7.6x6/u. 

 Peck. 



PileilS at first ovate or subcampanulate, then expanded, slightly 

 viscid when young and moist, smooth or rarely adorned by a few 

 fragments of the volva, even on the margin, white, yellowish-brown or 

 blackish-brown. Lamellae rather broad, rounded behind, free, white. 

 Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, smooth or 

 slightly floccose, ringed, bulbous, the ruptured volva either appressed 

 loose or merely forming a narrow margin to the bulb. 



Plant 4-8 in. high. Pileus 2-5 in. broad. Stem 3-6 lines thick. 



This species is common and variable. It occurs everywhere in woods 

 and assumes such different colors that the inexperienced mycologist is 

 apt to mistake its different forms for distinct species. With us the pre- 



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