Agaricus.] fungi. 5 



Rev. M. J- Bcrkeletj. — Solitary. Fileus 4 inches broad, at first convex 

 with many flat mealy warts which rub off with difficulty ; then expanded 

 and slightly depressed, glutinous when moist, when dry soft to the 

 touch like kid leather ; beneath the gluten are minute fasciculato-pilose 

 scales, but quite adpressed and innate ; reddish grey or brown, accord- 

 ing to Fries sometimes livid ; margin sulcate and tubercled. Gills 

 broad in front, free, white. Spondes round, pure white. Stem 5 inches 

 high, ^ an inch thick, stuffed, at length more or less hollow, bulbous, 

 either' silky and even or torn into reflexed scales ; ring deflexed ; 

 volva quite smooth, connate, the extreme margin only free all round. — 

 Fries describes the warts as white, minute, and subinnate. My speci- 

 mens agree exactly with Schoeffer's figure which is tolerably character- 

 istic ; but I find that in the advanced state of the plant the warts vanish. 

 If Persoon's Amanita wnbrina, Sijn. ^;. •254- (which is quoted by Fries) 

 be the same, this accords with his observation " a variety occurs in 

 which the pileus is destitute of warts." The contents of the stem are 

 quite tliffcrent from those of A. vaginatus. The synonym of Purton 

 certainly includes A. rubesccnSy and perhaps belongs entirely to that, but 

 as the synonyms of ^. pantherimis are also quoted, I consider it incum- 

 bent upon me to insert it, though I have not put down his localities, it 

 being fincertain to which of the two species they refer. 



**** Volva obliterated : margin of the pileus even. Suspicious. 



7. A.exctlsus, Fr. (tall Fly Agaric); pileus unequally warty, 

 margin even, flesh unchangeable, stem solid bulbous, tiie bulb 

 scaly. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p, 17. — Amanita anipla, Pers. Syn. 

 p. 256. 



Woods. Aug.— Sept. Shorne Wood, Kent, Aug. 9, 1832. Rev. M, J. 

 Berkeley.— Solitary. Pileus 4 inches broad, umber-grey, slightly viscid, 

 smooth, with a few unequal more or less conical irregular scattered 

 warts, easily rubbed off; epidermis tough and chuumy, easily peeling off; 

 margin not striate. Gills obtuse before and behind, but much broader 

 in front, truly free, ^ an inch broad, the margin slightly uneven. 

 Stem 6 inches or more liigh, 1 inch thick, going deep into the earth ; 

 scaly below the ring,scalcs thick and squarrosc ; abSve the ring the scales 

 are closely adpressed, their interstices finely silky, apex striate, tolerably 

 firm, juicy, of an unchangeable white, distinct from the pileus, Ihough 

 nearly of the same substance ; ring half-way down, large, substriate 

 within, externally downy. Taste pleasant. The above description, made 

 upon the spot, exactly agrees with that of Fries. The species is evi- 

 dently very nearly allied to the following, the principal difference con- 

 sisting in the unchangeable white of the flesh. 



8. A. rubcsce9is,Fers. sub Am. (changeahle-Jleshed Fly Agaric); 

 pileus clothed with unequal mealy warts, margin not striate, 

 flesh turning red, stem stuflVd scaly suhbulbous. Pers. Syn. 

 p. 254. py. Syst. J/yc. v. \. p. 18. — A. pustulatus, Schaff. t. 

 01. — A. niyodcs, Sclia^ff^. t. 2G1. — A. verrucosus, Curt. PL Loud. 

 t. ?t\'l. jig. sin. et mod. — A. muscnrius. var. 7. lyitli. r.^fl. p. 

 17 [.—^Purt. V. f). jf. 200 {in 2>art) var. 2. 



Woods, especially fir woods. Autumn. — Pileus convex, reddish, un- 

 e(|ually warty, warts flat; smooth and even on the margin, in ohl s|)i'ci- 

 mcns there is sometimes an appearance of striic on the margin in consc- 

 (jwcncc of its becon)ing transparent, slightly viscid; flesh turning red when 



