262 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



broken up into scales, ■wliitisti, stuffed then hollow; ring 

 distant, usually oblique ; volva adnate, the extreme margin 

 only free ; spores elliptical. 



Agaricus (^Amanita) imntlierinus^ Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 16; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 8 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 6. 



In woods and in pastures under trees. 



Solitary. Pileus 4 in. broad, at first convex with many 

 flat mealy warts, which rub off with difficulty ; then expanded 

 and slightly depressed, glutinous when moist, when dry soft 

 to the touch like kid leather ; beneath the gluten are minute 

 fasciculato-pilose scales, but quite adpressed and innate, 

 reddish grey or brown, according to Fries sometimes livid, 

 margin sulcate and tubercled. Gills broad in front, free, 

 white. Spores round, pure white. Stem 5 in. high, h in. 

 thick, stuffed, at length more or less hollow, bulbous, either 

 silky and even or torn into reflexed scales; ring deflexed; 

 volva quite smooth, connate, the extreme margin only free 

 all round. (Berk.) 



Amanita muscaria. Fr. 



Pileus 4—8 in. across, flesh rather thin in proportion, white, 

 yellowish just under the cuticle ; globose then plane, margin 

 striate, pellicle viscid, usually deep scarlet, but sometimes 

 orange, lemon-yellow, or brownish, becoming whitish ; gills 

 approaching the stem, down which they form decurrent 

 lines, 3-5 lines broad, white or with a tinge of yellow ; stem 

 4-7 in. high, up to 1 in. thick, base ovately bulbous, stuffed 

 then hollow, whitish, ring superior, lax ; volva adnate, 

 broken up into concentric scales ; spores elliptical. 



Agaricus (^Amanita) muscarius, Syst. Myc, i. p. 16; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 7; Cke., Illustr., pi. 117. 



In woods, especially birch and fir. 



Pileus 3-6 in. broad, convex at first, at length nearly or 

 quite plane, striated at the margin, mostly bright red or 

 orange, but varying sometimes to liver-colour, yellowish, 

 or even whitish, warty. Warts white or yellowish, pro- 

 minent, pretty regularly scattered over the surface, some- 

 times wanting. Lamellae adnate with the stipes, very 

 numerous, broad, white. Flesh thick, white, partaking to a 

 small depth of the colour of the pileus. Stipes smooth, white, 

 very straight, subsolid, 4—8 in. high, nearly an inch thick. 



