MYCOLOGIA 
VoL. VIII September, 1916 No. 5 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF FUNGI— XXV 
William A. Murrill 
Several species of the genus Venenarius, formerly called Ania~ • 
nita, were figured in Mycologia 5 : pi. 87. The accompanying 
plate shows additional varieties of the deadly amanita and an- 
other species which is quite rare. The drawings were made by 
Miss Eaton from specimens collected in or near New York City. 
Venenarius solitarius (Bull.) Murrill 
Amanita solitaria Fries 
Warted Amanita Pine-cone Amanita 
Plate 190. Figure i. X i 
Pileus subglobose or convex, to plane, solitary, 5-20 cm. broad ; 
surface dry, usually white or slightly yellowing, rarely cinereous or 
murinous, densely pulverulent, or pelliculose adorned with seced- 
ing, angular warts that may be soft, floccose, and flattened, or Arm 
and erect, often becoming glabrous with age, margin smooth, at 
times appendiculate ; context firm, white usually of mawkish flavor 
and odor resembling that of chlorin ; lamellae usually adnexed and 
rather narrow, occasionally free and rounded behind, more or less 
crowded, white ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, very variable 
in size, 7-14X5-9/^; stipe subequal, usually radicate, bulbous 
or enlarged or equal below, concolorous or paler, mealy above, 
squamulose or imbricate-squamose below, solid or slightly 
spongy, 4-15 cm. long, 1-4 cm. thick; annulus white, apical, fragile 
or lacerate, often appendiculate or evanescent ; volva white, usually 
friable, rarely remaining as concentric, margined scales or a short 
limb at the base of the stipe. 
[Mycologia for July (8: 191-230) was issued July 15, 1916.] 
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