258 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



naked, stuffed with spongy fibres, "bulbous at the base, with 

 a constriction where the Tolva becomes free. Yolva loose, 

 persistent. (Grev.) This applies to Ag. nivalis, Grev. 



Amanitopsis strangulata. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh rather thick, whitish, not 

 changing colour ; campanulate then expanded, plane when 

 adult, margin striate when young, then sulcate, slightly 

 viscid, glabrous, livid -bay, becoming pale, with numerous 

 wart-like fragments of the volva ; gills free, without a de- 

 current line on the stem, crowded, ventricose, 3 lines broad, 

 clear white ; stem 4-6 in. long, up to 1 in. thick at tbe base 

 and gradually attenuated upwards, pale, stuffed then hollow ; 

 Tolva adnate, becoming broken up into 1-3 irregular rings 

 -owing to increase in length of the base of the stem. 



Agaricus (^Amanitci) sirangulatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 6 ; Fries, 

 Icones, p. 11, t. 11; Cke., Hdbk., p. 10; Cke., lUustr., pi. 13. 



In woods. 



Colour mouse-grey ; smell none; taste sweet, (Cke.) 



Amanitopsis adnata. W. G. Smith. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh rather thick, whitish, firm ; 

 convex then expanded, rather moist, pale yellowish-buff, 

 often furnished with irregular, woolly patches of the volva ; 

 margin even, extending beyond the gills ; stem 2-4 in. long, 

 ^ in. thick, cylindrical, rough, fibrillose, pale buff, flesh 

 distinct from that of the pileus, stuffed then hollow; base 

 solid slightly swollen, volva adnate, white, downy, margin 

 free and lax, sometimes almost obsolete ; gills truly adnate, 

 crowded, with many intermediate, shorter ones, white ; 

 spores subglobose with an oblique apiculus, 7-8 /x, 



Agaricus (Amanita^ adnatiis, W. G. Smith. Saund. & Smith, 

 .t. 20; Cke., Hdbk., p. 10; Cke., Illustr., pi. 35. 



Woody places, under oak and holly. 



AMANITA. Fries, (figs. 4, 5, p. 3.) 



The universal veil at first completely enclosing the whole 

 fungus, becoming ruptured by the increase in length of the 

 stem, one portion remaining as a volva or sheath at the 

 base of the stem, the remainder usually forming separable 



