266 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



turning red when cut, more or less completely. Gills broad 

 in front, narrow behind, adnexed by a fine prominent line. 

 Spores subelliptic. Stem stuffed at length more or less 

 hollow, bulbous, the bulb more or less smooth, above the 

 ring clothed with flat adpressed scales ; below the ring the 

 scales have their upper margin free and patent; ring large, 

 deflexed, striate. Smell strong, taste not unpleasant. Such 

 is the form which occurs not unfrequently in the South of 

 England. The discoloration of the flesh is by no means 

 strongly marked. Indeed I find specimens in which it is 

 very slight, and the change is rather to brown than red ; 

 the stem furfuraceous below the ring, and above striate and 

 pulverulent ; the volva thick and smooth. (Berk.) 



Amanita spissa. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh rather thick, white, unchange- 

 able; convex then plane, obtuse, glabrous, even, but more 

 or less covered with small, angular, adnate, greyish warts, 

 umber, sooty, or grey ; margin even but often torn into 

 fibrils ; gills approaching very close to the stem, down which 

 they run in fine decurrent lines, broad, crowded, clear white , 

 stem 2-3 in. long, nearly 1 in. thick, clear white, solid ; bulb 

 globoso-depressed, not marginate, slightly rooting; stem at 

 length concentrically cracked and squamulose ; ring superior, 

 large; spores rather pear-shaped, 9-10 x /t. 



Agaricus (^Amanita) sjnssus, Fries, Epicr., i. p. ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 9 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 69. 



In woods. 



Pileus often torn and fibrillose at the magin ; warts thin, 

 adnate, mealy, grey. 



Amanita nitida. Fr. 

 Pileus about 4 in. across, flesh rather thick, white, almost 

 unchangeable, somewhat compact, hemispherical, covered 

 with the thick floccose volva which becomes broken up 

 into thick, adherent, brownish, angular warts as the pileus 

 expands, dry, shining, whitish, without a viscid pellicle, 

 margin always even ; gills free, crowded, up to h in. broad, 

 ventricose, crowded, clear white ; stem almost 3 in. long, 

 1 in. thick, conically attenuated upwards, solid, base bulbous, 

 squamulose, white; ring superior, thin, torn, rather striate, 

 white, downy below, at length disappearing. 



