REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQIl2 
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EDIBLE FUNGI 
Amanita ovoidea Bull. 
OVOID AMANITA 
Plate 131 
Pileus fleshy, hemispheric or expanded, glabrous, inflexed on 
the margin, pure white, flesh white, taste insipid; lamellae rather 
broad, subclose, ventricose, free or nearly so, white; stem equal 
or tapering upward, squamulose farinaceous, solid, firm, white 
without and within, bulbous at the base, annulate above; spores 
globose or subglobose, 10-12 x Q-IT p» or about Io p» broad. 
The ovoid amanita is a large, attractive and noble looking spe- 
cies. It is pure white throughout with the exception of the 
volva that envelops the bulbous base of the stem. This is 
slightly tinged with pink. The cap may range from 4 to 8 
inches broad, the stem from 4 to 6 inches long and 6 to 12 lines 
thick. The cap is very smooth, almost glossy, and white as 
snow. The flesh also is white but its taste is insipid, and in 
cooking it is necessary to season it well with butter and salt to 
make it satisfactorily palatable. The stem is firm, solid, more or 
less mealy externally and pure white. The species is very rare 
having not before been found in our State so far as I know. In 
Sylloge, volume V, page 9, Professor Saccardo remarks that he 
has never seen its spores nor has anyone else so far as he knows. 
This remark no longer holds good. The New York specimens 
yielded spores. Since the species is cogeneric with some of our 
most poisonous species of mushrooms, we advise no one to try 
its edibility unless perfectly sure of its identity. 
Tricholoma chrysenteroides Pk. 
GOLDEN-FLESH TRICHOLOMA 
Plate 132 
Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, or slightly 
silky, firm, pale yellow or at length rufescent, the margin some- 
times reflexed, flesh pale yellow, taste and odor farinaceous; la- 
mellae close, adnexed, often with venose interspaces, yellowish, 
sometimes becoming dingy with age; stem equal, firm, glabrous, 
solid or stuffed, rarely hollow, yellowish without and within; 
spores ellipsoid, 8-10 x 5-6 u. 
