Agaricaceae 



Amanita. lessncss. The remaining nine I have not seen, neither is there any rec- 

 ord of their qualities. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES. 



* Volva opening at the top or splitting all around, leaving a mani- 

 fest, free border at the base of the stem. Pileus naked or with broad 

 membranace'ous patches. 



** Volva splitting regularly all round the lower portion, persistent, 

 more or less closely embracing the base of the bulbous stem. The 

 upper portion being adnate to the pileus appears on it by expansion as 

 scattered, thick warts. 



*** Volva friable, entirely broken up into wart-like scales, there- 

 tore not persistent at the base of the stem, which is at first globose-bulb- 

 ous, becoming less so as it lengthens. Pileus bearing mealy patches, 

 soon disappearing or with small, hard, pointed warts. 



**** Volva rudimentary, flocculose, wholly disappearing. 



* Volva bursting at top, etc. 

 A. viro'sa Fr. virus, poison. 



MINING white. Pileus 3-4 in. broad, fleshy, at 

 first conical and acute, afterwards bell-shaped, 

 then expanded, naked, viscous in wet weather, 

 shining when dry, margin always even, but most 

 frequently unequal, turned backward and inflexed. 

 Flesh white, unchangeable. Stem 4-6 in. long, 



-wholly stuffed, almost solid, split up into longitudinal fibrils, cylindrical 

 from the bulbous base, often compressed at the apex, torn into scales 

 on the surface, springing from a lax, wide, thick volva, which bursts 

 open at the apex. Ring close to the top, lax, silky, splitting up into 

 floccose fragments. Gills free, thin, narrow, narrowing at both ends, 

 but a little broader in front, not decurrent on the stem (although the 

 apex of the stem is often striate), crowded, somewhat floccose at the 

 edge. Fries. 



The pilei are most frequently oblique, extended and lobed on one 

 side as in Hygrophorous conicus, scarcely ever depressed. The pileus 

 rarely becomes yellow. The fragments of the veil often adhere to the 

 edge of the gills. 



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