Agaricacese 



Amanita. margin thin, lower part quite thick, making stem appear bulbous, which 

 it is not. White forms occur. 



Not as virulent as A. phalloides, but like it in its POISONOUS ef- 

 fects. It differs from Amanitopsis in having a ring. 



Grows in woods and on wood-margins. 



Angora woods, West Philadelphia. On ground in mixed woods, 

 open and grassy places in wood and wood-margins. August to Sep- 

 tember. Mcllvaine. 



A. recuti'ta Fr. having a fresh or new skin. Pileus convex then 

 plane, dry, smooth, frequently bearing fragments of the volva, margin 

 nearly even. Stem stuffed then hollow, attenuated, silky, volva cir- 

 cumscissile, becoming obliterated, margin closely pressed to stem ; ring 

 distant, white. Gills striate-decurrent. 



In pine woods. Common. 



No report upon quality. 



A. Csesa'rea Scop. king-like. (Called by the Greeks Cibus Deorum, 

 food of the gods.) CAUTION. Pileus 3-8 in. across, hemispherical, 

 then expanded, free from warts, distinctly striate on the margin, red or 

 orange becoming yellow. Gills free, yellow. Stem 4-6 in. long, up 

 to % in. thick at base, slightly tapering upward, yellowish, flocculose, 

 stuffed with white fibrils or hollow, with a conspicuous yellowish ring 

 or veil. Volva white, large, distinct and membranous. Spores ellip- 

 tical, 8-io/u. Peck. 



Open woods, under pines on lawns. July to October. 



Reported from North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Mary- 

 land, New Jersey, Ohio, Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New York. 

 Peck, Rep. 23, 32, 33, 48. 



This emperor of fungi is the most showy of its race. It grows to 10 

 in. in height. The cap reaches 8 in. in diameter and the stem over i % 

 in. in thickness. In very much smaller specimens about the same pro- 

 portions occur. The cap is at first ovate, then hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded. It has no warts or scales upon it. The margin is distinctly 

 striate. The flesh is white, yellow or reddish under the skin; next to 

 the gills it is usually yellow. 



The stem tapers upward from the socket at its base. It is yellowish 

 and covered with loose fibrils of darker hue. The ring is white, but 



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