30 AGARICINI. 



inches in diameter. They flourished in dry as well as during wet 

 weather. The large above-ground bulb of the stipe is the most charac- 

 teristic. The figure represents a full-grown plant. 



Abundant throughout the county of Lehigh. 



Properties. Suspicious. Some authors pronounce it edible while 

 others doubt its esculent properties. Odor is not disagreeable, has a 

 musty flavor. Color, white. 



A. rubescens. Per. 



PiletlS, four to six inches, dingy reddish, becoming pale flesh 

 color, tan, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, moist but never 

 viscous in rainy weather, and opague when dry, covered with 

 unequal, soft, meal}^ whitish, easily separating warts ; margin 

 ^ven, when old slightly striated • only in wet weather; flesh 

 soft, white when fresh, reddening when broken. 



Gills, nearly free, reaching the stem in an attenuated 

 manner, shining white. 



Stem, four to five inches long, solid, though soft within, 

 attenuated from the thickened base, reddish squamules, 

 becoming reddish. Ring superior, large, white. There is 

 hardl}^ a trace of the friable volva. 



The specific name is derived from the Latin rubesco, meaning red. 

 The flesh is rust}- red ; it also turns red on being bruised. 



Diagnosis. All the general character of the genus Amanita. Specific 

 character is the reddish hue of whole plant. Volva friable, warts smaller 

 than in Muscarius. 



Properties. Some consider it poisonous, while others say if properly 

 prepared it is edible. Berkeley considers it doubtful. 



Locality, Spring Creek woods, near Trexlertown, where it grows 

 abundant. August and September. 



A. volvata. Pk. 



Pileus, fleshy, convex, expanded, striated on the margin, 

 sprinkled with floccose scales, whitish disk, pale brown. 



