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Figure 27. Amanita rubescens. One-third natural size, caps a dingy reddish-brown, 

 stains reddish when bruised. 



Amanita aspera. Fr. 



Rough Amanita. 



Aspera means rough. The pileus is convex, then plane ; warts minute, some- 

 what crowded, nearly persistent; margin even, rather thin, increasing in thickness 

 toward the stem ; scarcely umbonate, reddish with various tints of livid and gray ; 

 flesh rather solid, white, with tints of reddish-brown immediately next to the 

 epidermis. 



