Leucosporee 



A. spissa has been reported from but few localities. It is rare in the Amanita 

 latitude of Philadelphia. Half a dozen specimens have been found in 

 neighboring New Jersey. 



Taste and smell strong, but when cooked the dish is savory and not 

 unlike one of A. rubescens. 



A. as'pera Fr. asper, rough. Pileus 2-3 in. across. Flesh rather 

 thick at the disk, whitish, white or reddish with tints of livid or gray, 

 reddisJi or brownish tinder the cuticle; convex then plane, margin thin 

 and even, rough with firmly adnate, minute, closely crowded, angular 

 warts, reddish-brown or livid-brownish, not pure white, unchangeable. 

 Gills free and rounded behind, not striately decurrent, ventricose, white. 

 Stem stuffed, striate above the ring, short at first, ovate, then elon- 

 gating to 2-3 in., attenuated upward from a wrinkled bulb, squamulose, 

 white without and within. King superior, entire. 



Spores 8x6/i Massee; 8x6-7^ W.G.S. 



The flesh of stem and bulb when eaten by insects is reddish, the bulb 

 when old is a reddish-brown. The large ring and stem become red 

 when touched. In these particulars it resembles A. rubescens. In smell 

 it is somewhat strong, not unlike A. strobiliformis, but not nearly so 

 pungent. 



Cooked it is of excellent quality and flavor. I have eaten it since 1885. 



A. abrup'ta Pk. abrupt, of the bulb. Pileus thin, broadly convex 

 or nearly plane, covered with small angular or pyramidal, erect, some- 

 what evanescent warts, white, slightly striate on the margin. Flesh 

 white. Gills moderately close, reaching the stem and sometimes ter- 

 minating in slightly decurrent lines upon it, white. Stem slender, gla- 

 brous, solid, bulbous, white, the bulb abrupt, subglobose, often coated 

 below by the white persistent mycelium, the ring membranous, per- 

 sistent. Spores broadly elliptical or subglobose, 8-iox6-8//,. 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad. Stem 2.5-4 m - long, 3-4 lines thick. 



The chief distinguishing mark of this species is the abrupt, nearly 

 globose, bulbous base of the stem. This is somewhat flattened above 

 and is sometimes longitudinally split on the sides. The small warts of 

 the pileus are easily separable, and in mature specimens they have often 

 wholly or partly disappeared. The remains of the volva are not pres- 

 ent on the bulb in mature dried specimens, which indicates that the 



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