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MUSHROOMS. EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Amanita crenulata. Pk. 



Crenulata means bearing notches, refering to the crenulate form of the gills, 

 which are very distinct. 



The pileus is thin, two to two and a half inches broad, broadly ovate, becoming 

 convex, or nearly plane, somewhat striate on the margin, adorned with a few 

 thin whitish floccose warts or with whitish flocculent patches, whitish or grayish, 

 sometimes tinged with yellow. 



The gills are close, reaching the stem, and sometimes forming decurrent lines 

 upon it, floccose crenulate on the edge, the short ones truncate at the inner ex- 

 tremity, white. 



Figure 25. Amanita crenulata. 



The stem is equal, bulbous, floccose mealy above, stuffed or hollow, white, 

 the annulus slight, evanescent. Spores broadly elliptic or subglobose, 7.5-10 

 long, nearly as broad, usually containing a single large nucleus. Peck, Bull. Tor. 

 Bot. Club. 



The stem is bulbous at the base but the volva is rarely seen upon it although 

 slight patches are frequently seen on the pileus. The ring is very evanescent and 

 soon disappears. The specimens I have received from Mrs. Blackford look gooJ 

 enough to eat and she speaks highly of the edible qualities of this species. So far 

 as I know this plant is confined to the New England states. Found from Septem- 

 ber to November. It grows in low damp ground under trees. 



