Agaricaceae 



Amanita. commonly olivaceous-umber when young, fleshy, convex then flattened 

 or somewhat depressed, with a sticky pellicle, which is at first thick and 

 olivaceous dingy-brown, then thinned out, almost disappearing and 

 Jivid, the disk only becoming brownish; margin evidently striate; the 

 fragments of the volva divided into small, equal, white, regularly 

 arranged, moderately persistent warts. Flesh w holly TV kite, never 

 yellow beneath the pellicle. Stem 34 in. long, H in. thick, at first 

 stuffed then hollow with spider-web fibrils within, equal or attenuated 

 upward, slightly firm and sometimes scaly downward, greaved at the 

 base by the separable volva wJiicJi has an entire and obtuse margin. 

 Ring more or less distant, adhering obliquely, -white, rarely superior. 

 Gills free, reaching the stem, broader in front, 3-4 lines broad, shining 

 white. 



It is readily distinguished from A. muscaria, var. umbrina, by the 

 white flesh never becoming yellow beneath the pellicle. Variable in 

 size and color, which, however, is never red or yellow, and in the posi- 

 tion of the ring. 



In woods and pastures. Stevenson. 



Spores 7-8x4-5^^.; 6-io/i B.; 8x4/4 W. G. S.; 7-. 6x4.8** Morgan. 



Not poisonous, W. G. S.; not edible, Rose; poisonous, Lenba. 



North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, Iowa, New York. Peck. 



A. Bavenel'ii B. and C. in honor of Henry W. Ravenel. PileilS 

 4 in. across, convex, broken up into distinct areas, each of which is 

 raised into an acute, rigid, pyramidal wart. Stem 3 in. high, bulbous. 

 Volva thick, warty, somewhat lobed. Ring deflexed. 



South Carolina, June, H. W. Ravenel; a very fine species allied to 

 A. strobiliformis, Vitt. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1859; Alabama, 

 Atkinson (LI. Volvae). 



Properties not stated. 



A. russuloi'cles Pk. resembling a Russula. PileilS at first ovate, 

 then expanded or convex, rough with a few superficial warts, or entirely 

 smooth, viscid when moist, widely striate-tuberculate on the margin, 

 pale-yellow or straw color. Gills close, free, narrowed toward the 

 stem, white. Stem firm, smooth, stuffed, annulate, equal or slightly 

 tapering upward, bulbous; annulus thin, soon vanishing. Volva fra- 

 gile, subappressed. Spores broadly elliptical, ioxS/x. 



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