Agaricaceae 



Amanita. Plant 4-8 in. high. Pileus 3 -6 in. broad. Stem 4-6 lines thick. 

 Peck, 33d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Solitary in woods and open places. July to October. 



Georgia, H. N. Starnes; Indiana, H ' . I . Miller; West Virginia, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mcllvaine. 



Edible. Curtis, H. N. Statues, Philadelphia Myc. Club. 



In many localities I find it quite plentiful, and it is so reported from 

 Georgia. Southern and middle New Jersey woods abound with it, and 

 at Mt. Gretna, Pa., it is always present in its growing months. 



The cap is sometimes tinged with brown as are the angular, erect 

 warts which are generally numerous, but often falling off or few and 

 scattered. The flesh is white and smells like chloride of lime, but not 

 nearly so strong as A. strobiliformis. The volva is broken up into 

 floccose scales which cling to bulb and lower part of stem. These scales 

 may be white and mealy or brownish. The entire fungus has a fluffy 

 exterior, which is easily removed by rubbing. The annulus is torn, a 

 part often adhering to the margin of the pileus and the gills. This and 

 the long, tapering, rooting bulb are marked characteristics. The bulb 

 is brittle. It is difficult to get the fungus from the ground entire. 



Stem and cap are juicy, tender, mild in flavor, wholesome. It is not 

 equal in flavor to A. rubescens, but is more delicate. 



By many its properties have been stated as poisonous, doubtful. 

 Quantities of it have been eaten by myself and friends. Hypodermic 

 injection of its juices into the blood circulation of live animals prove it 

 perfectly harmless. 



A. can'dida Pk. shining white. PileilS thin, broadly convex or 

 nearly plane, verrucose with numerous small, erect, angular or pyramidal, 

 easily separable warts, often becoming smooth with age, white, even on 

 the margin. Flesh white. Gills rather narrow, close, reaching to the 

 stem, white. Stem solid, bulbous, floccose-squamose, white, the annulus 

 attached to the top of the stem, becoming pendent and often disappear- 

 ing with age, floccose-squamose on the lower surface, striate on the 

 upper, the bulb rather large, ovate, squamose, not margined, tapering 

 above into the stem and rounded or merely abruptly pointed below. 

 Spores elliptical, 10-13x8^. 



Pileus 3-6 in. broad. Stem 2.5-5 m - long, 5-8 lines thick, the 

 bulb 1-1.5 m - thick in the dried specimens. 



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