AMANITA 101 



var. aureola (Kalchbr.) Quel. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 1, fig. 1. 



Aureola, golden. 



Differs from the type in the erect, membranaceous volva. Under 

 birches. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



234. A. rcmilii Kiel. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xxm (1907), t. 1. 



Emile Boudier, the eminent French mycologist. 



P. 13-17 cm., yellowish butter colour, becoming tawny purplish, disc 

 finally dark fuscous, covered with cream coloured fragments of the volva, 

 fleshy, viscid, convex, then hemispherical, and finally expanded, and 

 depressed; margin paler, finally striate. St. 12-20 x 1-5-3 cm., white, 

 bulbous. Ring white, thick, especially at the margin, and covered 

 with the fragments of the cream coloured volva, crenulate, torn. 

 Volva friable, forming three to four concentric rings round the apex 

 of the globose, rarely fusiform base of the stem. Gills whitish, or pale 

 rose colour, attenuated or rounded near the stem, broad, somewhat 

 crowded, edge denticulate, floccose. Flesh white, pale rose red under 

 Spores white, subglobose, 9-10//,, 1-guttulate. Taste 

 Poisonous. Deciduous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



235. A. solitaria (Bull.) Fr. (= Amanita strobiliformis (Vitt.) sec. 

 Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 3. Solitaria, lonely. 



P. 8-12 cm., white, then pearl grey, covered with moderately thick, 

 angular, wart-like fragments of the volva, which are at first plate-like, 

 floccose, white, and easily separable, then becoming greyish and 

 hardened, very fleshy, moist, convex then expanded; margin appen- 

 diculate with the veil. St. 10-20 x 3 cm., white, covered with thick, 

 floccose, imbricate scales; base bulbous, prolonged into a root-like point. 

 Ring cream colour, floccose, often torn, and finally disappearing, 

 striate. Volva white, or greyish, very friable. Gills snow white, free, 

 decurrent by a tooth, ventricose, minutely crenulate. Flesh white. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 13-15 x 8-10/i. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Clearings in woods, and adjacent pastures. July Oct. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



236. A. strobilifonnis (Paul.) Quel. Cke. Illus. no. 9, t. 277. 



Strobilus, a pine cone. 



P. 6-30 cm., grey, covered with very thick, somewhat separable, angular, 

 pyramidal, wart-like, grey fragments of the volva, very fleshy, hemi- 

 spherical, then plane. St. 15-22 x 3-5 cm., whitish, clothed with grey 

 flocci; base bulbous, immersed in the soil and surrounded by two or 

 three circles formed by the remains of the volva. Ring white, apical, 

 torn, dependent, wide, striate. Volva greyish, friable. Gills white, 

 free, decurrent by a tooth. Flesh white. Spores white, elliptical, 



