8 AGARICUS. 



Amanita. *** Whole volva friable, &C. 



8. A. rubescens Pers. Pileus about 10 cent. (4 in.) broad, 

 dingy reddish, becoming pale flesh-colour, tan, scarcely pure, 

 fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, moist but not viscous in rainy 

 weather and opaque when dry, covered with unequal, soft, mealy, 

 whitish, easily separating warts, which are smaller, harder, and 

 more closely adherent in dry weather ; margin even, and when old 

 slightly striate only in wet weather ; flesh commonly soft, white 

 when fresh, reddening when broken. Stem 10-12.5 (4-5 in.) long, 

 as much as 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, stuffed, somewhat solid, though 

 soft within, conico-attenuated from the thickened base, reddish- 

 squamulose, becoming red-white, and without a trace of a distinct 

 volva at the base. Ring superior, large, membranaceous, soft, 

 striate and white within. Gills reaching the stem in an attenu- 

 ated manner, forming decurrent lines upon it, thin, crowded, soft, 

 as much as 12 mm. (y z in.) broad, shining white. 



Very changeable, but readily distinguished from all others of the same group 

 by the flesh being reddish when broken; the stem and pileus are commonly 

 spotted-red when wounded. In dry weather it is firmer, flesh reddening more 

 slowly, warts minute : A. verrucosus Bull. t. 316. Odour scarcely any. 

 There is a remarkable variety circinata, pileus becoming plane, umber-rufous, 

 warts adnate, crowded, roundish. A. circinatus Schum. Fl. Dan. t. 2140. 



In woods. Common. June-Nov. 



Spores sphseroid-ellipsoid, 7-8x6 mk. K. ; 8x6 mk. W.G.S. ; 7-9x6-8 

 mk. B. Edible. It is delicious and perfectly wholesome ; although it has 

 frequently been reckoned (Clus. Pern. g. vii. 3) among doubtful species. Val- 

 uable as an esculent species on account of its abundance. Name rubesco, 

 to become red. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 10. Hym. Eur. p. 23. Berk. Out. p. go. 

 C. Hbk. n. n. Illust. PI. 9. S. My col. Scot. n. 8. Krombh. t. 10. Vittad. 

 Fung. mang. t. 41. Fr. dtl. Sv. t. 74. Viv. It. t. 22, 27. Hussey t. 23. 

 Badh. i. t. 12. /. i, ii. t. ii./. 3-5. Gonn. & Rab. t. 5. Letell. t. 667. A. 

 rubens Scop.-Schceff. t. 91, 261. Le Rougeatre Paul Champ, t. 161. Soc. Med. 

 1776 /. 13. 



9. A. spissus Fr. Pileus umber, fuliginous or grey, fleshy, 

 somewhat compact, convexo- plane, obtuse, smooth, even, but 

 marked with small, cinereous, angttlar, adnate warts ; margin even, 

 but often torn into fibres ; flesh firm, white, quite unchangeable. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, as much as 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, 

 solid, turnip-shaped at the base, somewhat rooting with a globoso- 

 depressed not marginate bulb, curt, firm, shining white, at length 

 squamulose with concentric cracks. Ring superior, large. Gills 

 reaching the stem, slightly striato- decurrent, broad, crowded, 

 shining white. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. July-Sept. 



Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad. Stem 6-7.5 cent - ( 2 K~3 in.) long. 



