100 AMANITA 



var. citrina (Gonn. & Rabenh.) Eea. Gonn. & Kabenh. i and n, t. 4. 



Citrina, lemon yellow. 



P. 8-12 cm., bright yellow with white patches of the fragments of the 

 volva, convex, obtuse. St. 10-12 x 2 cm., white, stout. Volva im- 

 perfect. Spores white, "globose, waited, 6-7 /A" Massee. Rare. 



var. alba (Gillet) Rea. Cke. Illus. no. 3, t. 3. Alba, white. 



Differs from the type in being white, and then becoming discoloured. 

 Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



(c) Volva floccose, or friable. P. floccose, or verrucose with 

 the fragments of the volva, rarely naked. 



233. A. muscaria (Linn.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 5, t. 117. Musca, a fly. 



P. 10-20 cm., scarlet, or orange, covered with white, or yellowish 

 fragments of the volva, fleshy, viscid, globose, then convex, and at 

 length flattened; margin slightly striate when mature. St. 10-22 

 x 2-5 cm., white, or yellowish, firm, often torn into scales, apex striate, 

 base bulbous, encircled by several concentric rings formed from the 

 fragments of the volva. Ring white, yellowish on the exterior, superior, 

 very soft, torn, somewhat striate. Gills white, rarely becoming yellow, 

 free, but reaching the stem, crowded, thick, broader in front, minutely 

 denticulate. Flesh white, yellow under the epidermis. Spores white, 

 elliptical, apiculate, 8-10 x 6-7 //,. Taste mild. Poisonous. Birch, and 

 coniferous woods, and under birches and conifers. July Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. regalis Fr. Regalis, royal. 



Differs from the type in the very glutinous, liver coloured p., and in 



the st. becoming light yellow internally. Beech woods. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. formosa Fr. Gonn. & Rabenh. i and n, t. 10, fig. 2. 



Formosa, handsome. 



Differs from the type in the lemon yellow p. covered with lax, mealy 

 yellowish, fugacious fragments of the veil, and in the st. and ring often 

 becoming yellow. Beech woods. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. umbrina Fr. Umbrina, umber. 



Differs from the type in being thinner, and more slender, and in the 

 umber, or livid p., fuscous at the disc. Woods. Rare. 



var. paella (Batsch) Cda. Gonn. & Rabenh. i and n, t. 7, fig. 2. 



Puella, a girl. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, and in the p. being destitute 

 of any fragments of the volva. Woods. Rare, (v.v.) 



