6 Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2, Nr. 3. 



° Stem slender, somewhat hollow, deeply seated 

 in the substrate. Universal veil mealy-mem- 

 braneous, deciduous A. excelsa (8) 



% Stem shorter, firmer, solid; warts mucronate, 



persistent A. spissa (9) 



ff Universal veil (warts on cap, on edge of ring and 



base of stem) more or less sulphur-yellowish . A. aspera (10) 

 2. Flesh (of all parts of the fungus) turning rubescent when 



cut or bruised A. rubescens (11) 



II. AMANITOPSIS. 



Partial veil absent. Volva sheath-like or circumcised. Margin of cap sulcate. 

 Spores globose, large. 



A. Cap naked; volva sheath-like A, vaginata (12) 



B. Cap with large patchy warts or scales; volva circumcised 



A. strangulata (13) 



III. LEPIOTOPSIS. 



Universal veil obsolete (neither basal volva nor patches on cap). 



Bing present, Cap viscid. Spores small, subglobose A. lenticularis (14) 



