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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Spathularia rugosa Pk. 
North Elba. August. This is the second time this rare plant has 
been found. It was growing in lines or arcs of circles. 
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EDIBLE FUNGI 
Amanitopsis strangulata (Fr.) Roze 
Strangulated Amanitopsis 
Plate 50, fig. 1-10. 
Pileus fleshy but rather thin, fragile, at first ovate, then broadly 
convex or subcampanulate, finally nearly plane, warty, slightly 
viscid when moist, deeply and distinctly striate on the margin, 
grayish brown or mouse color, sometimes paler on the margin; 
lamellae close, free, broader toward the outer extremity, white or 
whitish; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, 
floccose-squamulose, white or whitish, the adherent remains of the 
ruptured volva sometimes forming an imperfect or fragmentary 
annulus near the base; spores globose, .0004 to .0005 in. in 
diameter. 
The strangulated Amanitopsis resembles the livid variety of the 
sheathed Amanitopsis in color and size, but it is easily distinguished 
by the warts of the pileus and by the fragmentary remains of the 
ruptured volva or wrapper at the base of the stem. The spores also 
are a little larger than in that species. 
When the young plant first appears above the surface of the 
ground, the cap is oval or somewhat egg-shape, but it soon becomes 
more expanded and finally nearly flat. In wet weather the margin 
sometimes curves upward making the cap appear concave above 
or centrally depressed. The warts have a soft or somewhat woolly 
texture and are easily separable from the cap. In the European 
plant they arc represented as sometimes entirely absent. In the 
American plant they are quite persistent on the center of the cap, 
though they sometimes disappear from the thin plicate-striate mar¬ 
gin. They are represented in the figure of the species given by 
Fries in his Iconefi as paler than the cap, but in our plant they are as 
