WHITE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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A. Jrostiana is also thinner than that of A. cothurnata. It is nearer, 

 in some respects, to specimens of Amanita pantherina received from 

 Bresadola, of Austria-Hungary. 



Amanita spreta Pk. Said to be Poisonous According to Peck this 

 species grows in open or bushy places. The specimens illustrated 

 in Fig. 71 grew in sandy ground by the roadside near trees in the 

 edge of an open field at Blowing Rock, N. C, and others were found 

 in a grove. The plants are 10-15 cm. high, the caps 6-12 cm. 

 broad, and the stems 8-12 mm. in thickness. The pileus is convex 



Figure 71. Amanita spreta. The two outside plants show the free limb of the 

 volva lying close against the stem (natural size, often larger). Copyright. 



to expanded, gray or light drab, and darker on the center, or 

 according to Dr. Peck it may be white. It is smooth, or with only 

 a few remnants of the volva, striate on the margin, and 1-.5 cm. 

 thick at the center. The gills are white, adnexed, that is they reach 

 the stem by their upper angle. The stem is of the same color as the 

 pileus, but somewhat lighter, white to light gray or light drab, 

 cylindrical, not bulbous, hollow or stuffed. The annulus is thin and 

 attached above the middle of the stem. The volva is sordid white, 

 and sheathes the stem with a long free limb of 3-5 lobes. It splits at 



