4 FUNGI. [Agarims. 



*** Volva obliterated ; margin of the pileus striate. Poisonous. 



4. A. muscdrius, L. (^Fly Agaric); margin of the pileus striate, 

 gills white,- stem subsolid bulbous, volva scaly. Limi. Fl. 

 Suec. 1235. Sow. t. 286. Jig. dext. var. 4. With. ed. 7. v. 4. 

 p. 1 73. Purt. V. 2. p. 630. and var. 4. v. 3. jo. 202. Fr. Sj/st. 

 Myc. V. }.p. 16. Klotzsch, Fung, Germ. exs. no. 1. — Amanita 

 muscaria, Grev. Sect. Crypt. FL t. 34. Grev. Fl. ed. p. 369. 



Woods, especially of fir and birch. Aug. — Nov. Abundant in the 

 Highlands : less common in the south of England. — Pileus 3 — 7 inches 

 broad, convex, at length sometimes depressed, rich orange scarlet, but 

 occasionally whitish, yellowish or brown, beset with conical, superficial, 

 angnlar warts, viscid when moist ; margin thin, striate; ^esh partaking 

 of the colour of the pileus to some depth. Gills white, broad, ventri- 

 cose, free or slightly adnexed. Sporules white, round. Stem 4 — 9 

 inches high, i — I inch thick, stuffed, at length sometimes hollow, 

 brittle, bulbous ; bulb sending down fibres into the soil, covered with 

 close conical scales, the remains of the volva ; above the bulb the sur- 

 face is broken into scales, beneath these fibrilloso-tomentose, the apex 

 minutely tomentose. Ring deflexed. — Highly narcotic, producing in 

 small doses intoxication and delirium, for which purpose it is used in 

 Kamschatka, and in larger, death. For a detailed account of its poison- 

 ous effects, see Roques Hist.'des Champ, p. 123, and, for some curious 

 particulars, a paper by Dr. Greville in the 4th vol. of the Wcrncriaji 

 Transactions, of which an extract is given by Lindley, Int. to Nat. 

 Syst. of Boi. p. 337. 



5. A. 3IaricE,K\otz&ch,(^Miss Hooker s Agaric) ; "pileus brown- 

 ish rough with floccose scales convex subumbonate at 

 lengtli plane, the margin even naked, gills not juicy crowded 

 free white, stem nearly equal somewhat hollow and mem- 

 branaceous in the middle somewhat bulbous at the base, ring 

 loose, veil minutely scaly." Klotzsch in LinncBa, v. 7. p. 197. 



On sandy soil in one of the Conservatories of the Botanic Garden, 

 Glasgow. Aug. 1830. Foundhy Miss Maria Hooker. — "Substa7ice^eshy, 

 tough, elastic, white. Pileus 2 — 3 inches broad, with dark-coloured 

 scales. Stevi tawny, pruinose, 2 — 3 inches long, 4 lines to | an inch thick : 

 Ring white." — Intermediate between A. imiscarius and A. rubescens. It 

 seems to be a very beautiful species, having when dry somewhat the 

 appearance of a large variety of A. cltjpeolarius, the scales not being 

 merely superficial but intimately connected with the true epidermis. 

 (In Fries' Ind. Alph. p. 29. 1832, the above notion is confirmed by 

 the observation, A, Mariee, Klotzsch, med. int. Aman. et Lepiot. — Lin- 

 n«a, VII. 198.) 



6. A. pantherinns, Dec. (^Panther Agaric) ; pileus warty, 

 margin striate, stem equal subsolid, volva adnate the margin 

 only free. Dec. FL Fr. v. 6. p. 52. Fr. Sysl. Myc. v. ].p. 16. 

 — A. maculattis, Scho'ff. t. 90. — A. miiscariits, var. 2. Purt. v. 

 3. p. 200. {in part). — var. 6. With. v. 4. p. 174. — A. cinereus, 

 Boqnes, Hist, des Champ. t.2\.f :?. 3. 



Borders of woods. Aug, — Oct. Not common. Lytchett, Dorset. 



