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panulate, then flattened, obtuse, slightly viscid at first; margin 

 deeply striate. St. 12-15 x 1-1-5 cm., white, or grey, floccose, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, surrounded at the base by a large, free, lax, often 

 lobed, white, or grey membranaceous volva, often inclosing a ring-like 

 mark around the stem. Gills white, or greyish, free, ventricose. Flesh 

 white, thin. Spores globose, 10-12/i, with a large central gutta. 

 Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, heaths, and pastures. June Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



210. A. fulva (Schaeff.) W. G. Sm. Boud. Icon. t. 7. Fulvus, tawny. 

 P. 4-10 cm., tawny, disc deeper coloured, campanulate, then 



flattened, umbonate, slightly viscid, covered with a few, fugacious 

 patches of the yellowish volva; margin striate. St. 7-20 x -5-1 cm., 

 paler tawny, squamulose, base surrounded by the upright, lax, free 

 yellowish, membranaceous volva. Gills white, tinged with yellow, free. 

 Flesh white, yellow under the epidermis. Spores globose, 9-14/i, multi- 

 guttulate. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, heaths, etc., especially 

 under birch trees. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



211. A. nivalis (Grev.) Rea. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 18. 



Nivalis, snow coloured. 



P. 5-9 cm., white, disc pale ochraceous, covered at first with the very 

 fugacious, white fragments of the volva, campanulate, then convex and 

 plane, or slightly umbonate; margin striate. St. 713 x 1 cm., white, 

 the subbulbous base surrounded by a white, lax, free, membranaceous 

 volva. Gills white, free, broader in front. Flesh white, thin. Spores 

 oblong elliptic, 11-12 x 9/u,, with a large central gutta. Taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



212. A. strangulata (Fr.) Roze. Boud. Icon. t. 9, as Amanitopsis 

 inaurata (Seer.) Boud. Strangulata, choked. 



P. 8-15 cm., bright tawny, or tawny brown, covered with numerous 

 large, grey, patches of the fragments of the volva, convex, then plane, 

 slightly viscid; margin deeply striate. St. 12-30 x 3-4 cm., greyish 

 white, stout, attenuated upwards, encircled by one to three greyish rings 

 on the lower half the remnants of the friable volva which disintegrates 

 at the base. Gills white, or tinged yellowish, adnate, crowded, ventricose. 

 Flesh white, tinged slightly yellowish under the cuticle. Spores globose, 

 8-13 fi, multi-guttulate. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, and pastures, 

 chiefly on the chalk and limestone. May Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



213. A. adnata (W. G. Sm.) Sacc. (= Amanita junquillea Quel.) 

 Saund. & Sm. t. 20. Adnata, adnate. 



P. 6-7 cm., pale yellowish buff, covered with white, woolly patches of 

 the volva, fleshy, very firm, convex, then expanded ; margin exceeding 

 the gills. St. 5-10 x 1-5 cm., pale buff, fibrillose, base slightly swollen 



