Report of tee State Botanist 177 



Amanita rubescens Pers. Druid Hill Park Plate 1 



Eastern Maryland Plate 2 



" " Halls Spring" near Baltimore. . Plate 3 



" Found in woods in every section of Maryland from July 

 until September, but very variable in size as well as in depth 

 of color. Plate 2 represents plants collected in Eastern 

 Maryland in 1870, also in woods near Halls Spring, Baltimore 

 county. Its spores are globose." 



The plants represented on Plate 2 also have the stem 

 beautifully and distinctly adorned below the annulus with 

 red scales. These and the globose spores indicate that the 

 plant is worthy of distinction as a variety if not as a species. 



Amanita muscaria L. Eastern Maryland Plate 4 



Plate 5 



Plate 6 



.. r Plate 7 



Plate 4 represents a large form with pileus yellow ; plate 6 

 a small form with pileus brownish, thereby approaching 

 variety umbrina ; plate 7 represents a form wholly white. 



"I havefound the scarlet form in the primeval forests of 

 the eastern shore of Maryland. The white form is not so 

 common as those with a yellow pileus." 



Amanita soHtaria Bull. Carroll county Plate 8 



Amanita strobilif ormis Vitt. Druid Hill Park Plate 9 



" I found this plant during the great drought of 1879. The 

 earth was dry and hard, yet some of the plants had reached 

 a very large size. * * * They grew near a spring, which 

 may account for the perfection of the plants. * * * The 

 odor from them was delightful, somewhat resembling that 

 of our edible A. campestris, but more powerful. The aroma 

 from the bulb is even greater than from the pileus." 



Amanita nitida, Fr. Halls Spring Plate 10 



"Common in nearly every woods in Maryland." 



Amanita phalloides Fr, Common Plate 11 



Amanita verna Bull. Druid HiU Park Plate 12 



Amanita spissa Fr. Carroll county Plate 174 



" I have referred this plant to A. spissa because it so closely 

 agrees with the description of that species as given in all the 

 books. It must be the American form of that plant. * * * 

 Spores white, globose or subglobose, .00024 inch. The spore 

 measure does not agree with W. G. Smith's measurement 

 which is .0005 in. long, pear shaped or balloon shaped, with 

 a short stalk." 



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