APPENDIX 
Descriptions'* of American Yolvae and references to European species re¬ 
ported from this country, 
AMANITA, (Typical.) 
Section 1. 
Amanita caesarea. Pileus hemispherical, then expanded, smooth, 
bright red or orange, fading to yellow, widely and distinctly striate on its margin; 
lamellae free, yellow; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, flocculose, stuffed 
with cottony fibrils or hollow, yellowish, bearing a yellowish annulus near the 
top and inserted at the base in a large loose membranous white volva; spores ellip¬ 
tical, 8-10 me. long. Plant 12-20 cm. high, pileus 10-20 cm. broad, stem 8-12 mm. 
thick. (Peck, 33rd Rep.) 
Amanita pellucidula. Pileus at first campanulate, then expanded, 
slightly viscid, fleshy in the center, attenuated at the margin, smooth, bright red, 
deeper at the top, shaded into clear transparent yellow at margin, gloss}-, flesh 
white, unchanging; lamellae ventricose, free, numerous, yellow; ring descend¬ 
ing, fugacious; stem stuffed. (Banning, Peck’s 44th report.) 
Amanita spreta. Pileus subovate, then convex or expanded, smooth or 
adorned with a few fragments of the volva, substriate on the margin, whitish or 
pale-brown; lamellae close, reaching the stem, white; stem equal, smooth, annu¬ 
late, stuffed or hollow, whitish, finely striate at the top from the decurrent lines 
of the lamellae, not bulbous at the base, but the volva rather large, loose, sub- 
ochreate; spores elliptical, generally with a single large nucleus, 10-12 me. long, 
6-8 me. broad. Plant 10-11 cm. high, pileus 7-12 cm. broad, stem 8-12 mm. thick. 
Ground in open places. (Peck 32nd Report.) 
Amanita recutita. Pileus convex then explanate, dry glabrous, often 
squamulose with fragments of the volva ; margin almost even ; stipe stuffed then 
hollow, attenuate, silky, vaginate with the narrow' appressed margin of the oblit¬ 
erated circumscissile volva. (Fries Epic., p. 19.) 
Amanita plialloides. (Stevenson, p. 4. Fries Epic., p. 18.) 
Amanita inag’nivelaris. Pileus convex or nearly plane, glabrous, slight¬ 
ly viscid when moist; even on the margin, w'hite or yellowish-white, lamellae 
close, free, w'hite ; stem long, nearly equal, glabrous, w'hite, furnished with a large 
membranous volva, the bulbous base tapering downward and radicating; spores 
broadly elliptical, 10 me. long, 6-8 me. broad. Pileus 7-12 cm. broad, stem 12-18 
cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick. Solitary in woods. (Peck, 50th Report.) 
Amanita virosa. (Stevenson p. 3. Fries Epic., p. 18 ) 
Section 2. 
Amanita mappa. (Stevenson p. 4. Fries Epic., p. 19.) 
Amanita pantlierina. (Stevenson, p. 6. Fries Epic., p. 21.) 
Section 3. 
Amanita Frostian a. Pileus convex or expanded, bright-orange or yel¬ 
low, w r arty, sometimes nearly or quite smooth, striate on the margin; lamellae 
free, w'hite or slightly tinged with yellow ; stem white or yellow 7 , stuffed, bearing 
a slight, sometimes evanescent annulus, bulbous at the base, the bulb slightly 
margined by the volva; spores globose , 7-10 me. in diameter. Plant 5-8 cm. high, 
pileus 2^-5 cm. broad, stem about 4 mm. thick. (Peck, 33rd Report.) 
Amanita muscaria. (Stevenson, p. 5. Fries Epic., p. 20.) 
Amanita excelsa. (Stevenson p. 6. Fries Epic., p. 21.) 
♦While no quotation marks are used it must be understood that these are taken from ori¬ 
ginal descriptions. European species described in Stevenson are not reproduced here, though 
when the species is not English, descriptions are drawn either from Fries’ Epicrisis or Peck’s 
summary of New York species. 
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