Leucosporae 



stem as a yellow, floccose remnant. The stain of the ring is always Amanita. 

 noticeable. The volva is seldom found entire. It, too, is evanescent, 

 but, like the veil, is found yellow and fluffy, adhering to the fingers 

 when touched. 



It is probable that its highly colored cap has caused it to be gathered 

 by the careless collector of bright-capped Russulae, and that thus R. 

 emetica got its bad name. Examine carefully any toadstool resembling 

 it. The Russulae have neither ring nor volva. 



A. excel'sa Fr. excelsus, tall. POISONOUS. Pileus 4-5 in. broad, 

 brownish-gray, darker in the center, fleshy, soft, globose, then plane, 

 pellicle thin, but viscous, and in reality separable in wet weather, then 

 the surface is often wrinkled-papillose, or in a peculiar manner hollowed 

 and pitted, sprinkled with angular, unequal, whitish-gray, easily sep- 

 arating warts, the remains of the friable volva; margin at first even, 

 but when properly /developed manifestly striate, even furrowed. Flesh 

 soft, white throughout, unchangeable. Stem 4-6 in. long, I in. thick, 

 at first stuffed, almost solid, but at length hollow, globose-depressed at 

 the base, attenuated upward from the bulb, covered, sometimes as far 

 as the ring, sometimes only on the lower part \vlthdense, squarrose, con- 

 centric scales (from the epidermis of the stem being torn), striate at the 

 apex. Ring superior, large, separating-free or at length torn. Gills 

 quite free, rounded (not decurrent on the stem in the form of lines), 

 very ventricose, K in. and more broad, shining white. 



The bulb when young is somewhat marginate, but by no means sep- 

 arable, the margin proper, like that of A. muscaria, is marked with 

 scales, buried in the soil, somewhat rooting, beneath the margin marked 

 here and there with a concentric furrow. The shorter gills intermixed 

 are more numerous than is usual among Amanitae. There is a smaller 

 variety, with the margin more frequently striate and the stem stuffed, 

 then hollow. Fries. 



Solitary, in woods, chiefly under beech. Stevenson. 



Spores 6x9/A W. G. S.; 8-9x5-6^ Massee. 



North Carolina, Schweinitz, Curtis; South Carolina, Ravenel; Cali- 

 fornia, Harkness and Moore; Massachusetts, Frost, Andrews; Minne- 

 sota, Johnson; Rhode Island, Olney. 



\. pantheri'na De C. spotted like a panther. Doubtful. Pileus 



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