256 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



In damp woods. 



Eemarkable for the great development of the ring, and 

 the smooth pinkish tan pileus. Stem 4r-6 in. long, i^ileus 

 3-4 in. broad. Fries places it in Amanita. (Cooke.) 



Lepiota Georginae. W. G. Smith. 



Pileus ^-1 in. across, flesh rather thin, white, changing to 

 crimson when broken; fragile, campamzlate then plane, 

 covered with a dense, viscid mealiness, white, changing 

 instantly to crimson when touched, margin at length striate ; 

 gills free, very thin, moderately distant, somewhat ventri- 

 cose, about IJ line broad, white, the edge becoming crimson 

 when touched ; stem 1-2 in. long, up to 1 line thick, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, clothed with white, viscid meal which 

 becomes crimson when touched, fistulose ; ring evanescent, 

 spores elliptical, 10-12 X 6-7 /i, 



Agaricus (^Lepiota) Georginae, W. Gr. Smith, Seeman's 

 Journ. Bot., vol. ix. p. 1, t. 112 (1871); Cke., Hdbk., p. 20; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 132 (after Smith). 



On mosses in a cool fernery. 



Eeadily distinguished by being white at first, and every 

 part turning crimson at once when touched. An introduced 

 species. 



AMANITOPSIS. Eoze. 



Stem with a volva at the base ; ring absent ; remainder 

 as in Amanita. 



Amanitopsis, Eoze, in Karst., Hattsv., i. p. 6 ; Sacc, SylL, 

 vol. V. p. 20. 



Amanita, Pers., Syn., p. 246 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 6 (as a sub- 

 genus of Agaricus). 



The present genus differs from Amanita in the absence of 

 a ring, and from Lepiota in the presence of a volva. 



Amanitopsis vaginata. Eoze. 

 Pileus~2^^in. acirosiiTIesh rather thin, whitish ; campanu- 

 late then expanded, obtuse, glabrous, naked or rarely with 

 fragments of the volva attached, moist in rainy weather, 

 somewhat shining when dry, margin quite membranaceous 

 and coarsely striate; colour variable, lead-colour, orange- 

 rufous, whitish, &c. ; gills free, ventricose, uot much crowded, 



