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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  ^ 
  

  

  Spathularia 
  rugosa 
  Ph. 
  

  

  North 
  Elba. 
  August. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  second 
  time 
  this 
  rare 
  plant 
  has 
  

   been 
  found. 
  It 
  was 
  growing 
  in 
  Hnes 
  or 
  arcs 
  of 
  circles. 
  

  

  E 
  

   EDIBLE 
  FUNGI 
  

  

  Amanitopsis 
  strangulata 
  {Fr.) 
  Roze 
  

   Strangulated 
  Amanitopsis 
  

  

  Plate 
  50, 
  -fig. 
  1-10. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  fleshy 
  but 
  rather 
  thin, 
  fragile, 
  at 
  first 
  ovate, 
  then 
  broadly 
  

   convex 
  or 
  subcampanulate, 
  finally 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  warty,, 
  slightly 
  

   viscid 
  when 
  moist, 
  deeply 
  and 
  distinctly 
  striate 
  on 
  the 
  margin, 
  

   grayish 
  brown 
  or 
  mouse 
  color^ 
  sometimeis 
  paler 
  on 
  the 
  margin; 
  

   lamellae 
  close, 
  free, 
  broader 
  toward 
  the 
  outer 
  extremity, 
  white 
  or 
  

   whitish; 
  stem 
  equal 
  or 
  slightly 
  tapering 
  upward, 
  stuffed 
  or 
  hollow, 
  

   floccose-squamulose, 
  white 
  or 
  whitish^ 
  the 
  adherent 
  remains 
  of 
  the 
  

   ruptured 
  volva 
  sometimes 
  forming 
  an 
  imperfect 
  or 
  fragmentary 
  

   annulus 
  near 
  the 
  base; 
  spores 
  globose, 
  .0004 
  to 
  .0005 
  in. 
  in 
  

   diameter. 
  

  

  The 
  strangulated 
  Amanitopsis 
  resembles 
  the 
  livid 
  variety 
  of 
  the 
  

   sheathed 
  Amanitopsis 
  in 
  color 
  and 
  size, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  

   by 
  the 
  warts 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  fragmentary 
  remains 
  of 
  the 
  

   ruptured 
  volva 
  or 
  wrapper 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  stem. 
  The 
  spores 
  also 
  

   are 
  a 
  little 
  larger 
  than 
  in 
  that 
  species. 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  3^oung 
  plant 
  first 
  appears 
  above 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  

   ground^ 
  the 
  cap 
  is 
  oval 
  or 
  somewhat 
  egg-shape, 
  but 
  it 
  soon 
  becomes 
  

   more 
  expanded 
  and 
  finally 
  nearly 
  flat. 
  In 
  wet 
  weather 
  the 
  margin 
  

   sometimes 
  curves 
  upward 
  making 
  the 
  cap 
  appear 
  concave 
  above 
  

   or 
  centrally 
  depressed. 
  The 
  warts 
  have 
  a 
  soft 
  or 
  somewhat 
  woolly 
  

   texture 
  and 
  are 
  easily 
  separable 
  from 
  the 
  cap. 
  In 
  tlic 
  European 
  

   plant 
  they 
  are 
  represented 
  as 
  sometimes 
  entirely 
  absent. 
  In 
  the 
  

   American 
  plant 
  they 
  are 
  quite 
  persistent 
  on 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  cap, 
  

   though 
  they 
  sometimes 
  disappear 
  from 
  the 
  thin 
  plicate-striate 
  mar- 
  

   gin. 
  They 
  are 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  figure 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  given 
  by 
  

   Fries 
  in 
  his 
  hones 
  as 
  paler 
  than 
  the 
  cap, 
  but 
  in 
  our' 
  plant 
  they 
  are 
  as 
  

  

  