OP SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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surface dull, mealy when young, becoming smooth, white. Gills adnexed, 
moderately close, alternate ones at the periphery short, up to fin. deep, near 
Straw Yellow (xvi.). Stem up to 2 1 in. (5.8 cm.), rather slender (tin., 1 cm., 
thick above), nearly equal, base somewhat bulbous, somewhat mealy, solid, 
white. Ring evident, dependent, membranous, subdistant, white. \ olva not 
obvious, evidently friable. Flesh rather thin, white. Spores elliptical, with an 
oblique apiculus, definitely slightly coloured yellow, 11 to 13 x 7.5 u.. On the 
ground under shrubs. South Australia — Kinchina, Encounter Bay. June. 
This species of Amanita is readily characterised by the straw yellow gills 
contrasting with the white pilous, which is mealy when young. The volva is 
evanescent. 
10. Amanita farinacea Oke. et. Mass. (L., farinace-as, mealy). — Pilous up to 
Sin. (12.5 cm.), convex, obtusely umbonate, mealy, sometimes with scattered 
small conical warts, edge slightly turned in and often beset with fragments of 
the veil, becoming smooth and shining, white with a tinge of fawn round the 
edge to pearly grey, the warts slightly darker. Gills adnexed with lines down 
the stem to just free, moderately close, white to pale cream. Stem up to Tin. 
(17.5 cm,), up to lin. (2.5 cm.) thick, bulbous and conical below, very mealy up 
to the gills, whose edges may also be mealy. Ring superior, fixed, sometimes 
absent. Remains of flic free edge of the volva above the bulb or the volva 
absent in the adult. Spores elliptical, 9.2 to 12 x 5.2 to 9.5 u. On the ground. 
The above description is drawn up from New South Wales specimens. The 
spores in the original description are given as “globose, 10 y.” Mount 
Compass specimens, May, were pure white, the piieus ljin. (4.4 cm.), convex, 
a little mealy, shining; gills cream-coloured, just reaching the stem; stem mealy 
with a slightly bulbous base; ring definite; spores narrow elongated, with an 
oblique apiculus, 13 to 17 x 4.5 to 5.5 u. 
This species of Amanita is ‘conspicuously mealy both on the piieus and stem, 
though the mealiness may disappear later from the pilous, leaving a smooth some- 
times pearly-grey surface. 
11. Amanita subalbida del. (L., subalbidus, somewhat whitish). — Piieus Ifin, 
(4.4 cm.), irregularly convex, then nearly plane, with the centre somewhat 
depressed, mealy with the remains of the universal veil^ piallid brownish to 
nearly white. Gills just adnexed, close, rather narrow, white. Stem lin. (2.5 
cm.), elongating from the hull) oils base to lfin. (4.4 cm.), rather short, fin. 
(10 mm.) thick, sub-mealy, nearly equal when expanded, solid, white. Ring 
superior, when young well-marked, membnnous, marked above with gill-lines, 
tending to disappear. Volva disappearing, as a slight friable rim-like edge to 
the bulb. Spores obliquely elliptical, white, 9.5 x 5.5 to 7.5 y. Half-buried 
in sandy soil. South Australia — Kinchina, Upper Hindmarsli Valley. June, 
September. 
The species resembles . I . farinacea but is much smaller, the piieus is piallid 
brownish to nearly white and the stem is less mealy. 
**With a volva at the base of the stem. 
AMANITOPSIS Roze. 
( Amanita , the genus of this name; Gr., opsis, like.) 
“Piieus fleshy, regular. Stem central, fleshy. Volva membranaceous, free, 
lax, sheathing. Gills free or adnatc. Spiores white, globose or subglobose or 
oblong elliptic, smooth, continuous. Growing on the ground” — Rea. 
A genus readily recognised by the absence of a ring, the presence of a definite 
volva and the white spores (and usually white gills). The species grade into 
Amanita , in which genus specimens may he found lacking a ring which other 
members of the same species may possess. In consequence some authors combine 
the two under Amanita. We have one common and beautiful species of 
Amanitopsis, A. imloheUa, usually rather small with a saffron-yellow to orange 
piieus covered in parts with reddish-orange and white patc-hy remains of the 
volva, a definite volva at the base of the stem and never any sign of a ring. 
The common, usually large, drab or chocolate-coloured Amanita, grisea may often 
be found in the Amanitopsis form without a ring and with a definite volva. The 
edible mouse-grey Amanitopsis vaginal a and its white ally, A. nivalis, with ample 
sheathing volvas and globose spores, occurring in Europe and in New South Wales 
and other Australian States, have not yet been found in South Australia. 
