102 AMANITA 



10-11 x 7/x. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Downs, and woods 

 especially on the chalk. July Oct. Locally common, rare elsewhere. 

 (v.v.) 



237. A. aculeata Quel. Quel. Champ. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 1, fig. 1, as 

 Amanita strobiliformis Fr. Aculeata, prickly. 



P. 5-10 cm., white, becoming greyish, fleshy, convex, then plane, 

 densely covered with erect, slender, pointed, angular, firm, adnate, 

 whitish or greyish warts, that become tinged with bistre with age; margin 

 white, smooth. St. 5-12 cm. x 2-5 cm., whitish, solid, equal, floc- 

 cosely scaly; base bulbous, often attenuated downwards, surrounded 

 by several concentric crenulate zones, the remains of the volva. Ring 

 white, superior, thin, torn, striate, often becoming fugacious. Gills 

 white, becoming yellowish with age, 5-15 mm. wide, sinuate behind, 

 crowded. Flesh white, then tinged with yellow, thick, soft. Spores white, 

 broadly elliptical, or subglobose, with a basal apiculus, 10-11 x 8-9 /x, 

 contents granular. Smell and taste pleasant. Amongst beech leaves, 

 in woods. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



238. A. Vittadinii (Moretti) Vitt. (= Amanita umbella (Paul.) Quel.) 

 Krombh. t. 27. Vittadini, an Italian mycologist. 



P. 6-12 cm., white, densely covered with small, erect, wart-like frag- 

 ments of the volva, convex, then plane, silky. St. 15-20 x 2-2-5 cm., 

 white, becoming tinged with greenish, floccosely scaly, base often some- 

 what bulbous. Ring white, superior, large, flexuose, often double. 

 Volva white, or grey, friable. Gills cream colour, finally becoming 

 greenish, decurrent by a tooth, ventricose, thick. Flesh white, then 

 tinged greenish. Spores white ("greenish" Quel.), elliptical, 6-9 x 6 /A. 

 Smell and taste unpleasant. Poisonous. Downs, and woods on the 

 chalk and limestone. July Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



239. A. echinocephala Vitt. Cke. Illus. no. 1102, t. 939, fide Boudier, 

 as Amanita solitaria Bull. e^ti/o?, hedgehog; K<j)a\ij, head. 



P. 6-8 cm., white, or greyish, covered with thin, pointed, wart-like 

 fragments of the volva, convex, then flattened and depressed at the 

 disc; margin floccose. St. 8-14 x 2-4 cm., white, clothed with revo- 

 lute squamules, base napiform and rooting. Ring white, distant, per- 

 sistent, slightly striate. Volva greyish, friable. Gills greenish yellow, 

 free, broad. Flesh white, yellowish at the base of the stem. Spores 

 "white, ovoid, 11-13 x 7-10/t" Boud. Smell and taste unpleasant. 

 Poisonous. Limestone pastures, and woods. July Sept. Rare. 



240. A. excelsa Fr. (= Amanita ampla (Pers.) Quel.) Rolland, 

 Champ, t. 6, no. 8, as Amanita ampla. Excelsa, tall. 



P. 9-15 cm., reddish grey, or brownish grey, covered with mealy, 

 fugacious patches of the volva, streaked with innate, blackish bistre 



