LEUCOSPORI. 



II 



B. RING OBLITERATED OR WANTING. Amanita. 



15. A. vaginatus Bull. Pileus 5-12.5 cent. (2-5 in.) broad, 

 livid, &c., slightly fleshy, at first campanulate then flattened ob- 

 tuse and even, smooth, naked and 



rarely covered with fragments of the 

 volva, moist in rainy weather, some- 

 what shining when dry, at the mar- 

 gin wholly membranaceous, elegantly 

 sulcate like the teeth of a comb; flesh 

 whitish. Volva wholly free, sheath- 

 ing, lax, fragile. Stem hollow, with 

 spider-web fibrils within, attenuated 

 equally from the base, commonly slen- 

 der, but when larger as much as 2.5 

 (i in.) thick, very soft however and 

 fragile, externally torn into squamules. 

 Ring obsolete. Gills free, ventricose, 



not much Crowded, Shining White Or H.Agaricus(_Amanita)vaginatus. 



-. One-quarter natural size. 



becoming pale. 



The ring though obsolete is present, more or less conspicuous at the base 

 of the stem, disclosed in the volva. The stem is somewhat stuffed when very 

 robust. Two forms may be noted as varieties : (a.)fulva, pileus and volva 

 tawny : A. fulvus Schceff. t. 95. Fl. Dan. t. 2142. A. trilobus Bolt. t. 38. /. i. 

 (b) alba, wholly white : A. fungites Batschf. 79. A. nivalis Grev. t. 18. The 

 tawny and brightly coloured forms appear in summer ; the livid and fuscous 

 forms, which are the larger, in autumn. 



In woods, &c. Common. June-Nov. 



Stem as much as 15 cent. (6 in.) long. Spores sphaeroid or subsphaeroid 

 10-15 mk. K. ; nearly spherical, 10-14 mk. Z?. / 9 x 8 mk. IV.G.S. Edible, 

 and of excellent flavour, though reckoned among dangerous species by older 

 authors. The chief objection to its use as food is the thinness of the flesh, 

 Name vagina, a sheath. Bull t. 98, 512. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 2. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 27. Berk. Out. p. 91. t. 3. / 4. C. Hbk. n. i. Illust. PL 12. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 12. Fl. Dan. t. 1014. Krombh. t. i. f. 5, t. lo.f. 6-9. 

 Vittad. t. 16. Hussey ii. /. 34. Bar la t. 5. Ventur. t. 5. Gotin. & Rab. 

 t. j.f. i. &c. Badh. p. 142. A. plumbeus, hyalinus, badius Schceff. t. 85, 

 86, 244, 245. A. pulvinatus Bolt. t. 49. 



16. A. strangulatus Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) and 

 more broad, date-brown-livid, becoming pale, fleshy, campanu- 

 late then flattened, obtuse, smooth, viscid, commonly variegated 

 and occasionally fully covered over with broad, crowded, plane 

 scales ; margin striate, then deeply sulcate, almost like the teeth 

 of a comb. Stem wholly stuffed when young, somewhat hollow 

 only when old, closely sheathed at the base by the circularly split 

 volva. Ring inferior, about 2.5 cent, (i in.) distant from the base, 

 rarely medial. Gills free, crowded, ventricose, shining white. 



