AMANITA 



adnate, persistent, or friable. Gills free, subadnate, or decurrent by 

 a tooth, intermediate gills cut squarely behind. Spores white, rarely 

 tinged greenish, globose, subglobose, oval, or elliptical, smooth, very 

 rarely verrucose. Cystidia subglobose, or cylindrical ventricose. 

 Growing on the ground. 



(a) Margin of volva free, persistent. P. generally naked. 



227. A. verna (Lam.) Fr. Syst. (= Amanita virosa Fr. Hym. Eur.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1, t. 1, as Amanita virosa Fr. Ver, spring. 



Entirely white. P. 58 cm., fleshy, conical, acute, then campanulate, 

 expanded, and subumbonate, glutinous, shining when dry; margin 

 often unequal, repand, inflexed. St. 8-12 x 1-5-2 cm., cylindrical 

 from the bulbose base, often compressed at the apex, split up into 

 longitudinal fibrils, floccosely squamulose. Ring apical, lax, silky, 

 splitting up into floccose fragments. Volva thick, lax, wide. Gills 

 free, thin, linear-lanceolate, a little broader in front, crowded, edge 

 often floccose. Spores white, globose, 7-8/z,. Smell foetid. Taste un- 

 pleasant. Poisonous. Moist woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. grisea Massee. Grisea, grey. 



Differs from the type in the p. being shaded with grey. Woods. Rare. 



228. A. phalloides (Vaill.) Fr. (= Amanita virescens (Vaill.) Quel.) 

 Rolland, Champ, t. 3, no. 3. (f>a\\6$, Phallus; etSo<?, like. 



P. 7-10 cm., greenish, or yellowish olive, streaked with dark, innate 

 fibrils, fleshy, ovato-campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, viscid, rarely 

 covered with one or two fragments of the volva. St. 8-12 x 1-5-2 cm., 

 white, rarely besprinkled with olive or pale yellowish olive, adpressed 

 squamules, smooth, or floccose, attenuated upwards, base bulbous. 

 Ring white, superior, reflexed, slightly striate, swollen, generally en- 

 tire. Volva free for half its depth, generally splitting up into three or 

 four, more or less acute segments. Gills white, free, ventricose, 8 mm. 

 broad. Flesh white. Spores white, subglobose, 8-11 x 7-9 fj., with a 

 large central gutta. Smell foetid when old. Taste unpleasant. 

 Poisonous. Woods, and ad joining pastures. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. verna (Bull.) Fr. 1 Boud. Icon. t. 2, as Amanita verna (Bull.) Fr. 



Verna, occurring in spring. 



Differs from the type in being entirely white. Spores white, globose, 

 7-8/i,, with a large central gutta. July Aug. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. umbrina (Ferry) Maire. 



Differs from the type in the brownish umber p., and in the fuscous, 

 adpressed squamules on the st. (v.v.) 



1 Boudier describes this as a distinct species with oval spores 10-14 x 7-9 fi. 



