AMANITA 99 



229. A. porphyria (A. & S.) Fr. Barla, Champ, t. 3, figs. 5-6. 



Trop<f>vpa, purple. 



P. 3-6 cm., greyish bistre with a purplish tinge, campanulate, then 

 expanded, moist; margin rarely slightly striate. St. 7-9 x 1 cm., 

 white tinted with grey, base bulbous. Ring white, becoming fuscous, 

 distant. Volva erect, white becoming fuscous. Gills white, adnexed, 

 crowded, thin. Flesh white. Spores white, globose, 9/z, multi-guttu- 

 late. Smell strong. Poisonous. Pine woods. July Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



230. A. lutea Otth. Lutea, yellow 



P. 4-7-5 cm., yellow, or yellowish ochre, conical, then expanded, 

 viscid, disc papillose, usually with broad scattered scales; margin invo- 

 lute, striate. St. 7-8 cm., bulbous, rather narrowed upwards. Ring 

 white, thin. Volva membranaceous. Gills white, crowded. Woods. 

 Rare. 



(6) Volva circumscissile, or fugacious. P. generally covered 

 with fragments of the volva. 



231. A. recutita Fr. Gonn. & Rabenh. i and n, t. 2, as Amanita 

 Secretanii Rabenh. Recutita, circumcised. 



P. 6-9 cm., fuliginous, bistre, or brown, but without any tinge of 

 purple, dry, convex, then plane, generally covered with fragments of 

 the volva, silky. St. 8-10 x 1-5-3 cm., white, silky, attenuated up- 

 wards, base bulbous. Ring white, distant. Volva greyish bistre, closely 

 sheathing, ending abruptly. Gills white, adnexed with a decurrent line. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, globose, 8-9 /x. Smell slightly foetid. 

 Poisonous. Pine, and birch woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



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



232. A. mappa (Batsch) Fr. (= Amanita citrina (Schaefl.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 4, t. 4. Mappa, a napkin. 



P. 6-9 cm., white, or becoming yellow, covered with patch-like frag- 

 ments of the volva, slightly fleshy, dry, convexo-plane, obtuse, or 

 depressed, orbicular. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, equal, base bulbous. 

 Ring white, yellowish on the exterior, superior, soft, lax, minutely 

 striate. Volva yellowish, or fuliginous, obtuse, the friable upper portion 

 disappearing and leaving a distinct groove round the base of the st. 

 Gills white, adnexed, crowded, narrow, edge often yellowish. Flesh 

 white, yellowish under the cuticle. Spores white, subglobose, apiculate 

 at the base, 8-10 x 7-9 fj,, with a large central gutta. Smell foetid. 

 Poisonous. Woods, and heaths. July Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



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