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TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS AMANITA FIGURED IN 

 »DANMARKS AGARICACEER« l ). 



I. EU-AMANITA 



Universal and partial veil both present; the former either volvaceous, at base 

 of stem, or forming warts on cap, the latter forming a ring on the stem. 



A. Sphærosporæ. Spores globose (or almost globose). 



Cl. volvatæ. Rulb with membraneous free volva; Cap generali}' 

 naked (without remnants of universal veil). 



a. Cap white. (Ring generally torn, adhering to the gills; stem 

 somewhat fibrillous-scaly) A. virosa (1) 



b. Cap coloured. (Ring entire, stem almost smooth). 



1. Cap olive or yellowish A. phalloides (2) 



2. Cap fuscous (dark or very pale) with a red-brownish tint. 



* Bulb large, outside of ring fuscous A. porphyria (3) 



* Bulb small, outside of ring yellowish. A. (porph. var.) recutita (4) 

 [3. circumcissæ. Volva circumcised, thus forming a narrow free 



margin on bulb and warty patches on cap. (cnf. no: 4) . . A. Mappa (5) 



B. Ovisporæ. Spores (generally broadly) ovate. 



[Ct. volvatæ. A. cæsarea, coccola etc.; no Danish species]. 

 |3. circumcissæ. 



a. Cap scarlet or orange A. muscaria (6) 



b. Cap pallid or fuscous (brownish or rubescent). 



1. Flesh not turning reddish when cut or bruised. 



* Bulb globose, with a narrow free margin, ring almost 



even, warts pure white A. pantherina (7) 



Ü Bulb ovate (or almost wanting) not distinctly marginate ; 

 ring lineate-striate. 

 -j- Warts on cap whitish or pale gray. 



x ) »Danmarks Agaricaceer«., which comprises watercolour-portraits of some 

 800 species painted by me, are executed in duplo, the one belonging to 

 the library of the Bot. Garden of Copenhagen, the other to my own. For 

 further particulars see part I. 



