LEUCOSPORI. 21 



solid, stout, cylindrical, with many concent7'ic scaly-squarrose Leplota. 

 zones. Ring superior, large. Gills free, ventricose, thick, be- 

 coming green. 

 Very handsome, large, robust. Intermediate between Amanita and Lepiota. 



In groves. Rare. 



Poisonous. Name — after Vittadini. Fr. Hym. Eui: p. 33. Bei'k. Out. 

 p. 94. C. Hbk. n. ■2'j. Illust. PL 36. Hussey i. t. 85. Amanita Vittadini 

 Morett. Bot. Ital. t. i. Vittad. A?nan. t. i. Krombh. t. 27. 



33. A. holosericeus Fr. — Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more broad, 

 whitish or clay-white, fleshy, soft, convex the7t expanded, rather 

 plane, obtuse, floccoso-silky, somewhat fibrillose, becomijig even, 

 fragile, disc by no means gibbous, and wholly of the same colour ; 

 margin involute when young ; flesh soft, white. Stem 6-10 cent. 

 {2%- 4 in.) long, 12 mm. (^ in.) and more thick, solid, bulbous 

 and not rooted at the base, soft, fragile, silky-fibrillose, whitish. 

 Ring superior, membranaceous, large, soft, pendulous, the mar- 

 gin again ascending. Gills wholly free, broad, ventricose, crowd- 

 ed, becoming pale-white. 



A species well marked from all others. Inodorous. 



On soil in flower-beds. Staplehurst, Kent. 



Spores 6x9 mk. W.G.S. Name — 6A.0?, entire, crr/piKo?, silken. Wholly- 

 silky. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 26. Hym. Eur. p. 34. C. Hbk. n. 28. Illust, PI. 

 41. Saund. 6^ Sin. t. 'z^- /• i. 



34. A. naucinus Fr.— Pileus 2.5-4 cent, (i-i^ in.) broad, white, 

 the disc of the same colour, fleshy, soft, gibbous or obtusely um- 

 bonate when flattened, even, the thin cuticle splitti7ig up i7ito gran- 

 ules. Stem 4-7.5 cent (iX~3 i^^-) ^o'^g' stuffed, at length so77iewhat 

 hollow, but without a definite tube, atte7uiatcd ^ipwards from the 

 thickened base, fibrillose, unspotted, white. Ring superior, 

 tender, but persistent, adheri7ig to the ste77i, at length reflexed. 

 Gills free, approximate, crowded, ventricose, soft, white. 



There is a prominent collar, as in the Clypeolarii, embracing the stem. Stat- 

 ure and appearance oi A. excoriatus, but commonly smaller, the superior ring 

 adfixed, &c. A. leucothites Vittad. Fung. mang. t. 40 with reddening gills 

 seems a variety of this. 



In fields. Rare. , 



Sometimes delicate tan, the gills assuming a dirty-pink hue. The large 

 white spores are very characteristic. It may be confounded very easily with 

 A. cretaceus, M.y.B. Edible; taste mild, pleasant. Name — itaucum (or 

 nucinus, nux), a nut-shell. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 27. Hym. Eur. p. 34. Berk. 

 Out. p. 94. C. Hbk. n. 29. Illust. PI. 15. Vent. t. 48. /. 6. A. sphaero- 

 sporus Krombh. t. 24./. 20-23. 



