92 ANELLARIA. AMANITOPSIS 



P. 2-6 cm., clay whitish, or yellowish, fleshy, ovato-campanulate, 

 2-5-4-5 cm. high, not expanding, obtuse, viscid, smooth, often 

 wrinkled, or cracked when old; margin often appendiculate with the 

 veil. St. 5-20 cm. x 4-8 mm., whitish, tense and straight, rigid, 

 gradually attenuated upwards from the thickened base, striate under 

 a lens, smooth. Ring white, membranaceous, distant, entire, narrow, 

 persistent, often striate. Gills whitish, then cinereous black, adnate, 

 but almost separating, ascending, 4-8 mm. broad, edge often whitish. 

 Flesh whitish, yellowish under the cuticle, and towards the base of the st., 

 thick at the disc. Spores black, pip-shaped, 16-20 x 10-12jM. Cystidia 

 bottle-shaped, 30-40 x 8-1 4/x. x 5-8 ju, at apex. On dung, especially 

 that of horse. Woods, fields, and gardens. April Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



207. A. fimiputris (Bull.) Karst. (= Panaeolus fimiputris (Bull.) Fr.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 626, t. 626, as Panaeolus phaknarum Bull. 



Fimus, dung; putris, rotten. 



P. 23 cm., fuliginous-cinereous, or livid, fleshy, conical, then ex- 

 panded, somewhat gibbous, viscid, smooth, generally beaded with the 

 veil. St. 5-10 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, equal, smooth, girt with an annular 

 zone above the middle. Gills livid blackish, adfixed. Flesh whitish, thin. 

 Spores black, "elliptical, apiculate, 9-10 x 6/u," Massee. On dung. 

 Fields, roadsides, and gardens. April Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



208. A. scitula Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 625, t. 927, fig. B, as Panaeolus 

 scitulus Massee. Scitula, pretty. 



P. 11-5 cm., dirty pale ochre, fleshy, campanulate, obtuse, smooth, 

 viscid, margin exceeding the gills. St. 2-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., white, 

 equal, shining, base peronate, sheath ending in a persistent ring below 

 the middle of the st. Gills becoming ashy grey, speckled with the black 

 spores, almost free, narrow, crowded. Flesh white, thin. Spores black, 

 opaque, with a colourless hilum, elliptical, 12-13 x 4/x. On soil in a 

 flower-pot. Eare. 



***With a volva at the base of the stem. 



Spores white. 



Amanitopsis Roze. 



(Amanita, the genus; cn/rt?, like.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central, fleshy. Volva membranaceous, 

 free, lax, sheathing. Gills free, or adnate. Spores white, globose, sub- 

 globose, oblong elliptic, smooth, continuous. Growing on the ground. 



209. A. vaginata (Bull.) Roze. Gonn. & Rabenh. t. 7, fig. 1. 



Vagina, a sheath. 



P. 3-10 cm., livid, or mouse grey, covered with large, white, or grey, 

 fugacious patches of the fragments of the volva, slightly fleshy, cam- 



