Xieucosporae 



This is a fine large species related to A. solitaria, but differing from Amanita. 

 it in the character of its bulb and of its annulus. The bulb is not mar- 

 ginate nor imbricately squamose. Its scales are small and numerous. 

 Nor is it clearly radicating, though sometimes it has a slight abrupt 

 point or myceloid-agglomerated mass of soil at its base. The veil or 

 annulus is large and well developed, but it is apt to fall away and dis- 

 appear with age. Its attachment at the very top of the stem brings it 

 closely in contact with the lamellae of the young plant and the striations 

 of its upper surface appear to be due to the pressure of the edges of 

 these upon it. It separates readily from the margin of the pileus and is 

 not lacerated. In the mature plant the warts have generally disap- 

 peared from the pileus and sometimes its margin is curved upward 

 Peck, Bull. Torr. Dot. Club, Vol. 24, No. 3. 



Woods. Auburn, N. Y., Alabama, U. and E.; Pennsylvania, West 

 Virginia, New Jersey, August to October, Mcllvaine. 



A dozen or more specimens were found in oak woods near Philadel- 

 phia, and carefully tested. Their edible qualities were found to be 

 precisely the same as A. solitaria. 



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Whole volva friable, etc. 



A. rubes'cens Pers. rubesco, to become red. (Plate VIII, fig. 2, 

 p. 1 8. Plate XII, fig. 4, p. 32.) PileilS about 4 in. broad, dingy- 

 reddish, becoming pale flesh-color, tan, scarcely pure, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, moist but not glutinous in rainy weather and opaque 

 when dry, covered with unequal, soft, mealy, whitish, easily-separating 

 warts, which are smaller, harder and more closely adherent in dry 

 weather ; margin even and, when old, slightly striate only in wet weather. 

 Flesh commonly soft, white when fresh, reddening when broken. Stem 

 4-5 in. long, as much as I in. thick, stuffed, somewhat solid, though 

 soft within, conico-attenuated from the thickened base, r eddish-sea led, 

 becoming red-white, and without a trace of a distinct volva at the base. 

 Ring; superior, large, membranaceous, soft, striate and white within. 

 Gills reaching the stem in an attenuated manner, forming decurrent lines 

 upon it, thin, crowded, soft, as much as K in. broad, shining white. 



Very changeable, but readily distinguished from all others of the 

 same group by the flesh being reddisJi when broken; the stem and pileus 

 are commonly spotted-red when wounded. In dry weather it is firmer, 

 flesh reddening more slowly, warts minute. Odor scarcely any. There 



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