Leucosporae 



frequently tinged with yellow. In taste and smell it is mild. Open Amanita 

 woods is its favorite habitat, yet it is found growing luxuriantly under 

 pines, maples, elms, on lawns. It is not often found, but when it is, it 

 is solitary, or in groups or rings. In the latitude of Philadelphia it is 

 found from July until October 1st. Further south its stay conforms to 

 temperature, and it is more frequent. There is no doubt of its rare 

 edibility abroad, and of its being eaten in America. 



A specimen believed to be it should never be eaten until carefully 

 distinguished from A. muscaria and A. Frostiana, which have warts or 

 scales on the cap (which sometimes are not discernible after rain), 

 white gills, and a volva which soon breaks up into fragments or scabs. 



Appearing like a small form of A. muscaria, to which it was formerly 

 referred, is A. Frostiana Pk. (Frost's Agaric). It closely resembles 

 small A. Caesarea, especially in the yellow tinge of stem, ring and gills. 

 The volva and ring (persistent in A. Caesarea) soon disappear, but are 

 traceable by fluffy fragments, or yellow stains. It is extremely poison- 

 ous. 



The differences, concisely, are these : A. Caesarea (Orange Amanita). 

 Cap smooth, though occasionally with a few fragments of the volva as 

 patches upon it. Gills yellow. Stem yelltbw. Volva usually persistent, 

 sometimes breaking up into soft, fluffy masses. 



A. mtiscaria (Fly Amanita). Poisonous. Cap covered with remains 

 of the volva as scales or wart-like patches. Gills white. Stem white or 

 light-yellow. Volva not persistent, breaking up into fluffy fragments 

 or scales. 



A. Frostiana. Poisonous. Smaller and more delicate than the two 

 preceding. Cap smooth or with yellow scales or wart-like patches. 

 Gills yellow or tinged on edge with yellow. Stem white or yellow, 

 the ring evanescent, but always leaving a yellow mark on stem. Volva 

 yellow, breaking up into yellow fluffy fragments. 



Far better for the amateur to let the A. Caesarea, and anything re- 

 sembling it, respectfully alone. 



New York, Gansvoort. Circle forty feet in diameter. Peck, 32d 

 Rep. ; Maryland. There is not a doubt that this fungus can be eaten 

 with impunity, Banning; Alabama, abundant. Edible. Alabama Bull. 

 No. 80. 



Roques and Cordier, French writers, regard it as the finest and most 

 delicate of fungi, the perfume and taste being exquisite. 



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