Handbook of British fungi : with full descriptions of all the species, and illustrations of the genera / by M.C. Cooke.

Date:
1871
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Credit: Handbook of British fungi : with full descriptions of all the species, and illustrations of the genera / by M.C. Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect. 2. Phalloidece—rolva, free and lax. 4. Agaricus (Amanita) vernus. Bull. «Spring Amanita. Pileus at first ovate, tlien expanded, ratlier depressed, viscid, white ; margin naked, smooth ; stem stuffed, eqnal,floccose, base bulbous ; volva closely embracing the stem with its free margm ; ring reflexed ; gills ivee.—Bull t. 108. Vitt. Mang. t. 44. Paul. 1.156,/. 3-4. Smith P. M.f. 8. Price f. 3. Gard. Ghron. (^1861), p- 4.80, Jig. In woods. Early summer. Poisonous. Altogether white. Distinguished from white forms of A. phalloides by its closer sheathing volva, and more ovate pileus when young, and from the white forms of A. vaginatus by the presence of a ring. 5. Agaxicus (Amanita) phalloides, Fr. Stinking Amanita. Pileus campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, viscid; margin even, regular; stem hollow above, attenuated ; volva bulbous, free above, loose ; ring membranaceous ; gills rounded, ventricose.— Sys. Myc. i.p. 13. Epicr. p. 4. Vaill. t. 14:, f. 5, Paul. t. 155, 156,/. 1-2. Berk. Outl.pl. 3, f.l. (right figure.) Smith. P.M.f. 7. Eng. Fl. v. p. 1. Kromb. t. 28, /. 1-10. Corda Sturm t. 55. Price f. 28. Barla, t. 4. Gonn. ^ Bahh. i. t. 10,/. 1. Vent. «.40. A. bulbosus, Bull. t. 2. A. vernalis, Bolt. t. 48. A. verrucosus, Fl. Bond. t. 312 ; /. 4-5. Woods, and their borders. Aug.—Nov. Common. [Pennsylvania.] Pileus 2-3in. broad, irregularly scaly from the fragments of the volva ad- hering to the surface, variously coloured, white, straw-coloured, brownish, greenish, &c. Stem 3-4in. high, ^in. thick, fibrillose, attenuated upwards, bulbous below. Volva adnate at the base, with the margin free, more or less expanded. Odour powerful, and foetid, especially as it decays. Considered poisonous. Spores spherical '0003 in.— W- G. S. 6. Agaxicus (Amanita) mappa. Batsch. Delicate Amanita. Pileus convex, then plane, without separable cuticle, margin nearly even ; flesh white ; stem stuffed, then hollow, cylindrical, nearly smooth, bulbous, nearly globose at the base ; volva with its free margin acute and narrow ; ring membranaceous ; gills ad- nexed.—Fr. Epicr.p. 6. Gonn. ^ Babh. i.«. 11,/. 1. Paul. t. 158, /. 1-2. Vitt. Mang. 1.11. Kromb. 1.1,/. 6, t. 28, f. 11-12. Ann. N.H. no. 138. Price/. 66. Vent. 40,/. 1-2. A. bulbosus, Bull. t. hn,F.D.G.H.M. A. venenosa, Pers. Com. t. 2. Scha^jf. t. 241. Sow. t. 286 (leftfigure.) Curtis t. 312 (rightfigure.)