LEUCOSPORI. 5 



with the stem, with an acute and distant margin ; the calyptra Amanita. 

 covering the pileus divided into broad, irregular, somewhat 

 separating scales. Gills adnexed, crowded, narrow, shining 

 white. 



Odour stinking. The colour is that of A. phalloides (Curt. Lond. t. 32 and 

 Sow. t. 286 figure both under the same name), less changeable, commonly 

 white Price f. 66, with which A. virosa Conn. & Rab. t. 9. f. i. exactly 

 agrees, more rarely straw colour, Nees Syst. f. 165, lemon-yellow Gonn. & 

 Rab. t. ii. /". i, becoming green Krombh. t. 28. f. n, 12. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Aug.-Nov. 



Poisonous. Spores sphasroid, 7-10 mk. K. 8-9 x 6-8 mk. B. Name 

 mappa, a napkin. From the volva. Fr. Afonogr. i. p. 5. Hym. Eur. p. 19. 

 Berk. Out. p. go. C. Hbk, n. 6. Illusl. PL 4. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 3. A. 

 bulbosus Bull. t. 577. /. D.G.H.M. A. citrino-albus Vittad. t. n. Am. 

 venenosa Pers. Champ, earnest, t. 2. Paul. Ch. t. 158. b. smaller and with- 

 out warts : Schceff. t. 241. 



** Volva splitting regularly all round, 



4. A. muscarius Linn. Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) and more 

 broad, normally at first blood - red, soon orange and becom- 

 ing pale, whitening when old, globose, then convex and at 

 length flattened, covered with a pellicle which is at first thick, 

 and in wet weather glutinous, but which gradually disappears, 

 and sprinkled with thick, angular, separating fragments of 

 the volva ; margin when full grown slightly striatej flesh not 

 compact, white, yellow under the pellicle. Stem as much as a 

 span long, shining white, firm, torn into scales, at first stuffed 

 with lax, spider-web fibrils, soon hollow ; the adnate base of the 

 volva forms an ovate bulb, which is margi)iate with concentric 

 scales. Ring very soft, torn, even, inserted at the apex of the 

 stem, which is often dilated. Gills free, but reaching the stem, 

 decurrent in the form of lines, crowded, broader in front, white, 

 rarely becoming yellow. 



Var. regalis, twice as large, stem stuffed, solid when young, as much as 

 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) thick, becoming light yellow within ; the volva terminates 

 in 8-10 concentric squamoso-reflexed rows of scales ; pileus very glutinous, 

 bay -brown, or the colour of cooked liver ; gills yellowish. 



Var. formosa, soft, fragile ; pileiis at first lemon-yellow, with mealy, lax, yel- 

 lowish, easily separating warts, often naked ; gills often becoming yellow. 

 A. formosa Gonn. & Rab. t. io./. 2, with the warts rubbed off. 



Var. umhrina, thinner and more slender ; stem hollow, often twisted, bulb 

 narrowed ; pileus at first umber then livid, with exception of the disc which 

 is fuscous ; gills at length remote. Viv. Ital. t. 26. 



In woods, chiefly birch and fir. Common. July-Nov. 



Easily identified by its orange pileus, more or less covered with white warts, 

 and pure white stem and gills. Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 10-12x8-9 mk. 



