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with a mem'brane wliioli in course of expansion either falls 

 off or forms a deflexed ring. 



Stem 3-4 in. high, half an inch thick, fibrillose with a 

 few adpressed scales arising from the partial ring which was 

 at iirst in contact with it, attenuated upwards, bulbous 

 below and there furnished with a variously lobed volva, 

 which is adnate with the base of the stipes, but has the 

 margin free and more or less expanded, in general hollow at 

 the apex or for some distance down, though occasionally the 

 inner substance is only a little more spongy than the outer, 

 varying much in size and colour and degree of scaliness, and 

 according to Fries in the manner of adherence of the volva. 

 When fresh it has a powerful but not disagreeable smell ; 

 when past maturity, its odour becomes almost insupportable. 

 (Berk.) 



Amanita mappa. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rather fleshy; convex then plane, 

 ohtuse or depressed, orbicular, dry, usually white or yellowish, 

 margin for the most part even ; gills adnexed, crowded, 

 narrow, clear white ; stem 2-3 in long, 3-5 lines thick, 

 white ; ring superior, soft, lax, usually torn ; volva splitting 

 in a regularly circumscissile manner, a portion remaining on 

 the pileus in the form of broad, irregular, seceding scales, 

 base globosely-bulbous, connate with the stem, margin acute, 

 distinct and distant ; spores subglobose, 7-9 ft. diameter. 



Agaricus (Amanita) mappa, Fries, Epicr., p. 4 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 7 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 4. 



In woods. 



Smell strong; colour variable. Somewhat resembling 

 A. pTialloides, but differing in the shorter, equal stem. 



** Volva circumscissile ; pileus warted. 



Amanita pantherina. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thin except at the disc, per- 

 sistently white ; convex then almost or quite plane, margin 

 striate, reddish-yellow or hrownish, cuticle viscid, usually 

 ornamented with pale, flat, mealy warts; gills narrowed 

 hehind and free but dose to the stem, broad in front, white ; 

 stem 4-5 in. long, J in. thick, hulbous, more or less silky or 



