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and forming clecurrent lines upon it ; volva obliterated. — Hass. 

 i. t. 23. 



In woods, very common. Known by its reddish colour 

 when rubbed. Quality doubtful. 



8. A. (Amanita) exeelsus, Fr. ; pileus convex, at length 

 plane, at first innato-fibrillose, clothed with irregular mealy 

 warts, which soon vanish; margin nearly even; flesh white; 

 stem bulbous, scaly below ; gills free, rounded behind ; volva 

 evanescent. (Plate 3, fig. 3.) 



In woods. Supposed to be poisonous. Margin sometimes 

 sulcate. Brownish. 



9. A. (Amanita) asper, P. ; pileus at first convex, rough 

 with minute subpersistent warts ; flesh brownish beneath the 

 cuticle; margin even; gills rounded behind, free. — Vitt. t. 43. 



In woods. Resembling in many respects A. rubescens. 



10. A. (Amanita) megalodactylus, Berk, and Br.; strong- 

 scented ; pileus soft, convex, smooth, reddish-grey ; cuticle en- 

 tire ; margin even ; stem somewhat bulbous, solid, fibrillose ; 

 ring very large, placed near the top of the stem ; gills mode- 

 rately broad, free, pallid, at length tinged with red. 



In a wood at Wothorp, near Stamford. Pileus 3^ inches 

 across, stem 5 inches high. Allied to A. lenticidaris, but the 

 solid stem is not squamulose, and the gills do not assume an 

 olive tint. 



** Binr/ none. 



11. A. (Amanita) vaginatus, Bull. ; pileus thin, at first 

 campanulate, then nearly plane ; margin deeply sulcate ; stem 

 flocculoso-squamose, fistulose; volva sheathing, loose; gills 

 free, at first white. (Plate 1, fig. 4.) — Huss. ii. t. 34. 



In woods and under trees; very common. Varying greatly 

 in colour, size, and breadth of the volva. A. nivalis, Grev. 



