Agaricacese 



Amanita. is a remarkable variety circinata, pileus becoming plane, umber-brown, 

 warts adnate, crowded, roundish. A. circinatus Schum. Stevenson. 



Spores spheroid-ellipsoid, 7-8x6/A K.; 8x6/i W.G.S.; 7-9x6-8^ B.; 

 elliptical, 8-p/* long. Peck. 



Not reported west of the Mississippi river. 



Oak woods, borders and open places. July to September. Indiana, 

 H . I. Miller; West Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Mcllvaine. 



It is quite common, often growing in large patches. Recent authors 

 agree upon the edibility and deliciousness of this species. The author 

 knows it to be one of the most plentiful, useful and delicious, after sev- 

 eral years of pleasant experience with it. 



In July, 1899, at Mt. Gretna, I found, growing from the ground gre- 

 gariously, a singular fungoid growth from 25 in. high; cap hemis- 

 pherical, i in. in diameter, tightly fitting a solid stem of nearly the 

 diameter of the cap. The whole was watery white, and evidently af- 

 fected by a parasite. It was edible. September 1st Professor Peck 

 wrote to me : "I think I have found the identity of the diseased 

 Agaric, of which you sent me samples some time ago. I mean the one 

 affected by Hypomyccs inoequalis Pk. The host is Amanita rubescens, 

 at least sometimes, and probably always." 



The plant is very heavy for its size. The lack of a volva, the dingy 

 color and reddish stains distinctly separate this from any poisonous 

 Amanita. 



A. Spis'sa Fr. compact, dense ; of the warts. PileilS umber, sooty 

 or gray, fleshy, somewhat compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, smooth, 

 even, but marked with small, ash-colored, angular, adnate warts; mar- 

 gin even, but often torn into fibers. Flesh firm, white, quite unchange- 

 able. Stem 2-3 in. long, as much as I in. thick, solid, turnip-shaped 

 at the base, somewhat rooting with a globoso-depressed not marginate 

 bulb, curt, firm, shining white, at length squamulose with concentric 

 cracks. Ring superior, large. Gills reaching the stem, slightly striato- 

 decurrent, broad, crowded, shining white. Fries. 



Spores 1 41* W.G.S.; subglobose, 8-io/u, C.B.P.; 6/* W.P.; rather 

 pear-shaped, 9-iox6ju, Massee. 



Cap 2-3 in. across. Stem 2x2-3 in. long, up to % in. thick. 



New Jersey, oak woods, August and September. Mcllvaine. 



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