Agaricaceae 



Amanita. species should be placed in the same group with A. rubescens, A. 

 spissa, etc. The latter species have the bulb of the stem similar to that 

 of our plant, but the color of the pileus and other characters easily sep- 

 arate it. Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 24, No. 3. 



Alabama, Underwood; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mcllvaine. July 

 to September. 



This species is edible and quite equal in quality to A. rubescens. 

 Great care should be exercised in distinguishing it. 



A. nit'ida Fr. niteo, to shine. Pileus when flattened 4 in. broad, 

 whitish, fleshy, somewhat compact, at first hemispherical, wrapped up, the 

 thick volva forming a floccose crust, then broken up into thick, remark- 

 ably angular, adhering warts, which become brownish, dry, shining, 

 without a glutinous pellicle, margin always even. Flesh white, quite 

 unchangeable. Stem 3 in. long, i in. thick, solid, firm, conico-attenu- 

 ated, with a bulb-shaped base , squamulose, white. Ring superior, thin, 

 torn, slightly striate, white, villous beneath, at length disappearing. 

 Gills free, crowded, very broad, as much as % in., ventricose, shining 

 white. Fries. 



Menands. Albany county. Our plant is more slender than the 

 typical form, and has smaller but more numerous warts, but in other 

 respects it exhibits the characters of this species. Peek, 43d Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



California, H. and M.; Maryland. Common in nearly every woods 

 in Maryland. Banning. 



From its likeness to poisonous species it should be suspected. 



A. prairiic'ola Pk prairie, colo, to inhabit. Pileus thin, convex, 

 slightly verrucose, white, more or less tinged with yellow, even on the 

 margin. Flesh white. Gills rather broad, subdistant, reaching the 

 stem, white. Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, somewhat 

 squamose toward the base, white or whitish, the annulus persistent. 

 Spores large, broadly elliptical, 12-14^ long, 7-9/4 broad. 



Pileus 1.5-3 m - broad. Stem 2-2.5 m - l n g, 2 ~4 lines thick. 



Bare ground on open prairies. Kansas. September. E. Bartholomew. 



This species belongs to the same tribe as A. abrupta. The only evi- 

 dence of the presence of a volva shown by the dried specimens is found 

 in a few inconspicuous, but separable warts on the pileus. There is no 



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