THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 23 



Amanita recutita. Fr. 

 The Fresh-skinned Amanita. Poisonous. 



Recutita, having a fresh or new skin. Pileus convex, then expanded, dry, 

 smoth, often covered with small scales, fragments of the volva ; margin almost 

 even, gray or brownish. 



The gills forming lines down the stem. 



The stem stuffed, then hollow, attenuated upward, silky, white, ring distant, 

 edge of volva not free, frequently obliterated. 



Rather common where there is much pine woods. August to October. 



This species differs from A. porphyria in ring not being brown or brownish. 



Amanita virosa. Fr. 

 The Poisonous Amanita. 



Virosa, full of poison. The pileus is from four to five inches broad; the 

 entire plant white, conical, then expanded; viscid when moist; margin often 

 somewhat lobed, even. 



The gills are free, crowded. 



The stem is frequently six inches long, stuffed, round, with a bulbous base, 

 attenuated upward, squamulose, ring near apex, volva large, lax. 



The spores are subglobose, 8-io/x. This is probably simply a form of A. 

 phalloides. It is found in damp woods. August to October. 



Amanita muse aria. Linn. 

 The Fly Amanita. Poisonous. 



Muscaria, from musca, a fly. The fly Amanita is a very conspicuous and 

 handsome plant. It is so called because infusions of it are used to kill flies. I have 

 frequently seen dead flies on the fully developed caps, where they had sipped of 

 the dew upon the cap, and, like the Lotos-eaters of old, had forgotten to move 

 away. It is a very abundant plant fliKthe woods of Columbiana county, this state. 

 It is also found frequently in many localities about Chillicothe. It is often a 

 very handsome and attractive plant, because of the bright colors of the cap in 

 contrast with the white stem and gills, as well as the white scales on the surface 

 of the cap. These scales seem to behave somewhat differently from those of 

 other species of Amanita. Instead of shrivelling, curling, and falling off they are 

 inclined to adhere firmly to the smooth skin of the pileus, turning brownish, and 

 in the maturely expanded plant apper like scattered drops of mud which have dried 

 upon the pileus, as you will observe in Figure 13. 



The pileus is three to five inches broad? globose at first, then dumb-bell in 

 shape, convex, then expanded, nearly flat in age ; margin in matured plants 





