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



easy to distinguish the different species clearly and exactly. For 

 while even the most tenacious mind cannot store, nor the most 

 lenghtly description clearly account for the numerous minute 

 details which together characterise a species, they can be seen at 

 a glance on a really carefully executed watercolour-portrait. 



In »Danmarks Agaricaceer« I have figured some 14 species 

 — besides several varieties and colour-forms, — 18 plates in all. 

 During more than 20 years of investigation I have not succeeded 

 in detecting any more, except some solitary specimens of 

 dubious identity. — Fries (in »Hymenomycetes Europæi«) 

 describes 37 European species; but of these only 21 (including 

 two rather dubious species) had been observed by himself in 

 Sweden. Thus only 5 of the genuine Swedish species are not 

 included in my collection, which accordingly comprises about 

 s / 4 of the Swedish. 



As all these species have been found by me in central Fyn, 

 an area not over 40 X 50 km, it is evident that these fungi are 

 very widely distributed (cnf. Mycena in part. I, page 37). The 

 number of species found is the more remarkable when it is 

 taken into consideration, that only some 70 years ago the isle 

 of Fyn had no coniferous woods worth mentioning. 



It is well known that the genus Amanita has a rather 

 characteristic distribution in Europe, as it comprises a number 

 of southern species (A. caesarea, coccola, echinocephala a. o.) 

 which are rarely met with beyond the middle of France, Switzer- 

 land and Southern Germany, while on the contrary some few 

 species (of the vaginata-hihe) seem to be subarctic (f. inst. A 

 hyperborea). In Denmark neither of these are represented. — 

 All the Amanitas seem to be strictly sylvatic. 



For purposes of classification the genus Amanita is naturally 

 divided in three groups, which might be termed Eu-Amanita, 

 Amanilopsis and Lepiotopsis. — The main tribe is characterised 

 by having both a distinct universal veil and a ring on the stem, 

 formed by the partial (secondary) veil. In Amanitopsis there 

 is no ring, and in Lepiotopsis the universal veil is almost 

 obliterate (being reduced to a viscid coating) while the ring is 

 well developed. Amanita lenticularis — the most prominent 

 representative of this group — is therefore by some authors 

 referred to Lepiota. But recently Maire has shown (Annales 

 Mycologici 1913) that its microscopic structure is more in accord 



