CLASSIFICATION OK A(JAHH 



I nnulus Bupi i i 

 649. Amanita mappa IV. (Deadli PoiSONOi 



Hymen. ESurop., L874. 



I llusi i-at ii»ns : Cooke, 111.. PL I (shape, etc., bul not with the 

 colors of the A mericaii plant ). 

 Bresadola, Fungh. mang. e. vel., PL 5. 

 Holland. Bull, de la soc. Myc. de Prance, PL l\ . Pig. I. 

 Ricken, BlaM terpilze, PL 77. Fig. 2. 



Atkinson, Mushrooms, Pig. 58, p. 58 (as I. phalloides), 1000. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Fig. 24, p. 35, L908. 



PILEUS 1-8 cm. broad, convex then expanded, usually very 

 regular, margin < >< a. FLESH white, do1 \<-yy thick. GILLS 

 or adnexed by ;i line close, medium broad, white. STEM subcylin- 

 drical above the very broad, ahnipt, subdepressed bulb, stuffed then 



hollow. 



There are two forms With us: (A) PILEUS smoky-umber vary- 

 ing to dark olive, sometimes almost white, often paler in color or 

 umber color only present on disk, the rest being whitish covered with 

 floccose soft scales, the upper pari of the universal veil. STEM 

 with a very abrupt, depressed, margined lmlb above the edge of which 

 the margin of the circumscissile yolva may projecl slightly, bulb 

 rounded below, surface of stem glabrous or nearly bo, white or 

 tinged smoky brown. SPORES globular, 8-9 micr., apiculate. A^i 

 NULUS superior, white, membranous. VOLVA evanescent on bulb, 

 bul remaining on cap. This form is usually confused with I. /<//<// 

 loides. 



i B) PILEUS yellowish-white to straw-color, rarely approaching 

 sulphur-yellow, covered with more or less persistent, flo sordid 



white or pale brownish scales. GILLS with edge floccose-crenul 

 due to globose-pyriform sterile cells, its trania with divergent 

 hyphae. STEM with <l< i>i<ss,<i saucer-shaped wide bulb, up t< 

 diameter, cylindrical above, n> l.~> mm. thick, pallid, or tinged ven 

 slightly with drab, almost glabrous, 6-9 cm. long. \\\i I 

 superior, straw-colored as ;i rule, membranous, rather am] 



VOLVA appresscd on the hull >. its short, thick, cup margin In 



stem and Leaving a space between it and the stem, rarelj obtuseh 

 short b.hed. SPORES perfectly globular, with an abrupt apiculus, 



~U micr. diameter, or smaller when immature, granular within. 



white. 



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