6 AGARICUS. 



Amanita. K. ; 6x9 mk. W.G.S. Very poisonous (Clus. Pern. g. xiii. 4. Sterb. 

 t. 28 A C). Producing intoxication, delirium, and death. Used in Kamt- 

 chatka as a narcotic. Name musca, a fly. Called Fly Agaric, from 

 the use of the decoction as a fly-poison. Linn. Fl. Suec. 1235. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 7. Hym. Eur. p. 20. Berk. Out. p. 90. C. Hbk. n. 7. Illust. 

 PL 117. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 4. Grev. t. 54. Hussey t. i. Krombh. t. 9. 

 Vittad. t. 5. Sv. Bot. t. 108. Fr, Sverig dtl. o. gift. Sv. t. i. Viv. 

 Ital. t. 29. Hartz. t. i. Hoffm. Ic. an. t. i. Paul. t. 157. Smaller, 

 without warts ; Schceff. t. 28. B. & Br. n. 1500*. A. puella Gonn. & Rab. 

 t. 7 .f. 2. 



5. A. pantherinus B.C. Pileus commonly olivaceous-umber 

 when young, fleshy, convex then flattened or somewhat depressed, 

 with a viscous pellicle, which is at first thick and olivaceous- 

 fuscous, then thinned out, almost disappearing and livid, the 

 disc only becoming fuscous ; margin evidently striate; the frag- 

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

 arranged, moderately persistent warts ; flesh wholly white, never 

 yellow beneath the pellicle. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 12 

 mm. (y 2 in.) thick, at first stuffed then hollow with spider-web 

 fibrils within, equal or attenuated upwards, slightly firm and 

 sometimes squamulose downwards, greaved at the base by the 

 separable volva which has an entire and obtuse margin. Ring 

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

 Gills free, reaching the stem, broader in front, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) 

 broad, shining white. 



Flesh of the pileus thinner than in neighbouring species. So like var. um- 

 brina of A. muscarius that Persoon, Secretan, and other colourists have con- 

 founded them, but very different from it (in the order of nature intermediate 

 as it were between A. strangulates and A. aridus, and truly abnormal in this 

 group) ; for the base of the circularly ruptured volva indeed forms a sheath 

 adnate to the stem, but is separable from it, and marked by a proper obtuse 

 continuous margin, and not furnished with the concentric scales of the rest. 

 It is readily distinguished from A. muscarius var. umbrina by the white flesh 

 never becoming yellow beneath the pellicle. Variable in size and colour, which, 

 however, is never red or yellow, and in the position of the ring. 



In woods and pastures. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Solitary. Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) broad ; when dry soft to the touch like kid- 

 leather. M.J.B. Poisonous. Spores 7-8x4-5 mk. K. ; 6-10 mk. B. ; 

 8x4 mk. W.G.S. Name pantherinus, spotted like a panther. Dec. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 9. Hym. Eur. p. 21. Berk. Out. p. 90. C. Hbk. n. 9. Illust. 

 PI. 2. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 5. Fl. Da?i. t. 19 11. f. 2 young. Vittad. Fung, 

 mang. t. 39. Krombh. t. 29. f. 10-13. Paul. Champ, t. 160, f. 2. Viv. t. 26. 

 Schceff. t. 90. 



6. A. excelsus Fr. Pileus 10-12.5 cent - (4~5 m -) broad, fus- 

 cous-grey, darker in the centre, fleshy \ soft, globose then plane, 

 pellicle thin, but viscous and in reality separable in wet weather, 

 then the surface is often wrinkled-papillose, or in a peculiar man- 

 ner hollowed and pitted, sprinkled with angular, unequal, whitish- 



