DESCEIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 107 



While. 



RUSSULA FURCATA = a fork. 

 Tlie Forked Bussula. 



Cap from 3 to 5 inclies broad, of an olive 

 green color, sometimes greenish umber, covered 

 with a silky bloom, fleshy, gibbous, then 

 piano-depressed and funnel-shaped, cuticle here 

 and there separable ; margin at first inflexed, 

 then spreading. Flesh firm, thick, white. Stem 

 2 to 3 inches long, solid, firm, stout, white. 

 Gills adnato-decurrent, thick, distant, broad, 

 narrowed at both ends, often forked, white. 

 Our specimen was 5 inches broad, and the 

 margin slightly striate, and when the cuticle 

 was removed it was purplish underneath. It 

 was found in August, in woods. Poisonous, 

 taste bitter. 



MUSHROOMS WITH WHITE COLOEED CAP. 



AMANITA VIROSA = poison. 

 The Poisonous Amanita. 



Cap shining white, from 2}^ to 4 inches 

 broad, fleshy, at first conical and acute, after- 

 ward bell-shaped and expanded, viscous in wet 

 weather, shining when dry, margin even, some- 

 times unequal, spreading and inflexed, flesh 



