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Series 1. Leucospori. Spores white (Plate ii). 



The species bearing white spores seem higher in type than those producing 

 coloured spores. Most of the former are firm, and many persistent, whilst, 

 as we approach the black-spored Agarics, there is a greater tendency to 

 deliquesce. The spores of the Leucosjiori are mostly oval, sometimes nearly 

 round, generally very regular, but sometimes spiimlose. They vary in size ; 

 and, while containing the largest as well as the smallest known spores, are 

 as a rule small, generally white, but sometimes dingy, or with a suggestion 

 of yellow, or pink. As a rule, none of the Leucospori grow on dung or in 

 rank places, whilst in the darker and black-spored groups these habitats are 

 the rule. — W. G. S. 



Sub-Gen. 1. Amanita. Pers. Syn., p. 246. 



Veil universal at first, completely enveloping the young plant, 

 distinct and free from the cuticle of the pileus ; pileus convex, 

 then expanded, not decidedly fleshy ; stem distinct from the 

 hymenophore, ringed or ringless, furnished with a volva, free and 

 lax, connate with the base, or friable and nearly obsolete ; gills 

 free from the stem. — Hab. On the ground, mostly in woods and 

 uncultivated places. — (PL II., Jig. 1, A.muscarius.) 



This subgenus is remarkable for the great development of the veil, which 

 at first entirely envelopes the young plant in a thick clothy wrapper ; as the 

 fungus reaches maturity the veil is ruptured, and part remains in scattered 

 patches on the pileus (b), whilst part forms a more or less complete cup or 

 volva at the base (c) ; when there are no fragments on the pileus the veil 

 has been ruptured in one place, and the whole mass remains at the base ; 

 this is often the case in Agaricus pkalluldes Fr. Some of the species have 

 the stem furnished with a ring (d), which is part of the veil, whilst three 

 species are ringless (or more properly, the ring is adherent to the stern). In 

 some species the veil is thick, and greatly developed, whilst in others it is 

 thin and friable, and both volva and patches are evanescent ; the higher 

 forms of J.ma/i.ito stand alone, from the stem being furnished with a xolva 

 and ring. Some of the species are edible, others highly poisonous. — W. G. S. 



Sect. 1. Vaginatce — ring obsolete. 



1. Agaricus (Amanita) vaginatus. Bull. " Sleek 



Amanita." 



Pileus thin, campanulate, then nearly plane, margin membran- 

 aceous, deeply sulcate ; stem fistulose, attenuated, fragile, floccu- 

 loso-squamose ; volva sheathing, loose ; gills free, white, then 

 pallid. — Berk. Outl. t. iii, Jig. 4. Eng. Fl. \,p. 2. Huss. ii. t. 34. 

 Bull. t. 98, 512. Vitt. Mang. t. 16. Lenz. f. 2. Kromb. 1. 1,/. 1-6, t. 

 10,/. 6-9, f. 30,/. 13-14. i^/.Da7i.^.l014,2142,/.2. Gard.Ckron. 

 (1861),i9. 97. Gonn. ^' Eabh. i. t. 7,/ 1. Barla. t. 5. Vent. t. 5. 



Far. albida. A. nivalis, Grev.t.l^. Eng. FLy. p.^. Fault. 

 151,/. 1-2. 



In woods and under trees. Common. [United States.] 



