REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 10,12 5 1 



EDIBLE FUNGI 

 Amanita ovoidea Bull. 



OVOID AMANITA 



Plate 131 



Pileus fleshy, hemispheric or expanded, glabrous, inflexed on 

 the margin, pure white, flesh white, taste insipid; lamellae rather 

 broad, subclose, ventricose, free or nearly so, white; stem equal 

 or tapering upward, squamulose farinaceous, solid, firm, white 

 without and within, bulbous at the base, annulate above ; spores 

 globose or subglobose, 10-12x9-11 jx or about 10 /* broad. 



The ovoid amanita is a large, attractive and noble looking spe- 

 cies. It is pure white throughout with the exception of the 

 volva that envelops the bulbous base of the stem. This is 

 slightly tinged with pink. The cap may range from 4 to 8 

 inches broad, the stem from 4 to 6 inches long and 6 to 12 lines 

 thick. The cap is very smooth, almost glossy, and white as 

 snow. The flesh also is white but its taste is insipid, and in 

 cooking it is necessary to season it well with butter and salt to 

 make it satisfactorily palatable. The stem is firm, solid, more or 

 less mealy externally and pure white. The species is very rare 

 having not before been found in our State so far as I know. In 

 Sylloge, volume V, page 9, Professor Saccardo remarks that he 

 has never seen its spores nor has anyone else so far as he knows. 

 This remark no longer holds good. The New York specimens 

 yielded spores. Since the species is cogeneric with some of our 

 most poisonous species of mushrooms, Ave advise no one to try 

 its edibility unless perfectly sure of its identity. 



Tricholoma chrysenteroides Pk. 



GOLDEN-FLESH TRICHOLOMA 



Plate 132 

 Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, or slightly 

 silky, firm, pale yellow or at length rufescent, the margin some- 

 times reflexed, flesh pale yellow, taste and odor farinaceous ; la- 

 mellae close, adnexed, often with venose interspaces, yellowish, 

 sometimes becoming dingy with age ; stem equal, firm, glabrous, 

 solid or stuffed, rarely hollow, yellowish without and within ; 

 spores ellipsoid, 8-10 x 5-6 fi. 



