8 AGAEICINI. 



Under trees. Not common. Poisonous. 



Colour variable. Habit like that of a small A. phalloides, from wbieh it is 

 distinguished by its less developed volva, which, instead of being cup-shaped, 

 is little more than a mere rim fringing the bulb. — 3f. J. B. 



Sect, 3. Muscarice — volva cut round, lower part connate with the 



stem. 



7. Agaricus (Amanita) muscarius. L. " Fly Amanita." 



Pileus convex, then expanded, clothed with scattered warts, the 

 remains of the volva, margin striate, flesh beneath the viscid cu- 

 ticle yellowish ; stem stuffed, bulbous at the bas^ ; volva adnate, 

 concentric, scaly ; ring lax, deflexed : gills reaching the stem and 

 forming decurrent lines upon it. — Grev.t. 54. Eng. Fl. Y,p.4:. 

 Huss. i. 1. 1. Gard. Citron. (1860), p. 169. Kromh, t. 9, /. 1-19. 

 Corda Sturm t. 54. Price f. 56. Barla. t. 2. Vent. t. l,f. 3-4. 

 S(nv.f.2S6{r{ghtf.gJ Smith, P. MJ. Id. Cooke,B.F.t.l. Gonn, 

 ^ Rahh. i. t. 6. 



Woods, especially fir and birch. Aug. — Nov. Poisonous. 



[Pennsylvania.] 



Pileus 3-7 in. broad, orange , scarlet, sometimes brownish, beset with super- 

 ficial conical warts, viscid when moist, margin thin and striate. Gills white, 

 broad, ventricose, free or slightly adnexed. Stem 4-9 in. high, ^-1 in. thick, 

 utuflFed with cottony fibres, sometimes hollow. Bulb covered with close coni- 

 cal scales, theremainsof the volva. Highly narcotic, producing intoxication, 

 deHrium, and death. Spores '00032 X -00025 in.— TF. G. S. (PL II., fig. I.) 



8. Agaricus (Amanita) excelsus, Fr. " Tall Amanita." 



Pileus convex, then plane, at first innato-fibrillose, clothed with 

 irregular, mealy, evanescent warts ; margin nearly even ; flesh 

 white ; stem stuifed, cylindrical, scaly below, bulbous, immar- 

 ginate ; volva evanescent ; gills ventricose, free, rounded behind, 

 — Fr. Epicr.p. 8. Berk. Outl.pl. 3,/. 3. Eng.Fl. y.p. 5. Kromh. 

 ^ 29,/. 14-17. PawZ.f. 159. Gomi.4' Pahh.i.t.8,f.l. 



In woods. Quality doubtful. [Carolina, U.S.] 



Colour bro\vnish. Margin sometimes sulcate. Pileus 4 in. broad, slightly 

 viscid, smooth, with a few more or less conical irregular scattered warts, 

 easily rubbed off; cuticle tough and clammy, easily peeling off; gills obtuse 

 before and b -hind, bat broader in front, truly free, half an inch broad, the 

 margin slightly uneven. Stem 6 in. or more high, 1 in. thick, going deep into 

 the earth, scaly below the ring, scales thick and squarrose, above the ring 

 the scales are closely adpressed, their interstices finely silky, apex striate, 

 tolerably firm, juicy, white ; ring half way down, large, substria^e within, 

 externally downy. Taste pleasant.— J/./. £. Spores "0003 X '00022 in.— 



w. o. s. 



