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fibrils, globose, then plane, viscid, rugose, uneven; margin often finally 

 striate. St. 12-20 x 2-3 cm., greyish, equal, or bulbous at the base, 

 villose, concentrically scaly below the ring from the breaking up of the 

 epidermis. Ring white, large, superior, dependent, torn, often fugacious. 

 Volva whitish grey, friable. Gills white, free, very broad, 12-15 mm., 

 ventricose. Mesh white, soft, fragile. Spores white, subglobose, 

 9 x 7-8 \i, multi-guttulate. Cystidia "on edge of gill, globular, 20- 

 35/u, in diam." Lange. Taste pleasant, smell unpleasant. Poisonous. 

 Deciduous woods. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



241. A. pantherina (DC.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 7, no. 10. 



Pantherina, deceitful. 



P. 6-10 cm., olivaceous umber, fuliginous, or greyish olive, rarely 

 whitish, covered with numerous small, white, moderately persistent frag- 

 ments of the volva, fleshy, convex, then flattened, or subdepressed, 

 viscid, shining when dry; margin striate. St. 7-9 x 1 cm., white, equal, 

 or attenuated upwards, base bulbous. Ring white, distant, thin, striate, 

 adhering obliquely, somewhat fugacious. Volva white, forming one or 

 two concentric rings at the apex of the globose base of the stem. Gills 

 white, free, reaching the stem, broader in front, 6-8 mm. broad. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, elliptical, 11-12 x 7-9 /z. Cystidia "mostly 

 cylindric-vesiculose about 12/z, in diam." Lange. Taste insipid, smell 

 unpleasant. Poisonous. Woods, heaths, and pastures. July Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



242. A. cariosa Fr. Gonn. & Rabenh. t. 9, fig. 2, as Amanita aspera. 



Cariosa, rotten. 



P. 6-12 cm., umber, or dark cinereous, covered with white, mealy 

 fragments of the volva, convex, then plane, often hemispherical, tender; 

 margin often striate. St. 12-14 x 2-4 cm., white, fragile, attenuated 

 upwards, not bulbous, villose, mealy. Ring white, superior, broad, 

 fugacious. Volva white, friable. Gills white, adnate, becoming free. 

 Flesh white, fragile. Spores white, ovoid, 11-13 x 7-10 /JL. Taste acid. 

 Poisonous. Woods. Sept. Rare. 



243. A. spissa Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 6, no. 9. Spissa, thick. 

 P. 8-15 cm., umber fuliginous, or grey, fleshy, compact, convexo- 



plane, obtuse, covered with whitish, or greyish, fugacious patches of the 

 volva; margin often fibrillose. St. 10-11 x 3-^ cm., white, clothed with 

 concentric squamules below the ring, base bulbous, somewhat rooting. 

 Ring white, superior, large, striate. Volva whitish, or greyish, friable. 

 Gills white, slightly striato-decurrent, broad, crowded. Flesh white, 

 firm. Spores white, subglobose, 9-10 x 8-9 p. Cystidia "on edge of 

 gills globular, 18-30//, in diam." Lange. Taste insipid, or slightly 

 biting. Edible. Deciduous woods. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



