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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    9. Agaricus (Amanita) panthexinus. D.C. Spotted Amanita. Pileus convex, then expanded, margin striate, flesh under the viscid pellicle white ; stem stuifed, then hollow, nearly smooth; volva at the base ocreate, with the margin entire, obtuse, and free ; gills attenuated, free.—Fr. Epicr.p. 5. Eng. Fl. v. p. 4. Fl. Dan. 1911,/.2. Vitt.Mang.t.39. Vent. t. 3. Kromb. t. 29, f. 10-13. Paul. 1.160,/. 2. Schoiff. t. 90. Barla. t. 7,f. 1-3. Hoques. t 21,/. 2-3. Gonn. l- Rahh.i. 1.1. In woods or pastures near trees. [Pennsylvania.] Brownish, not red orreddish brown, as in ^. muscaHus. Pileus, 4 in. broad, ■with flat, mealy warts, which rub off with difficulty, glutinous when moist; when dry, soft to the touch like kid leather. Stem 5 in. high, half an inch thick, stuffed, then more or less hollow, silky, and even, or torn into reflexed scales; rin^ deflexed; volva quite smooth, connate, the extreme margin only free all round.—iW. J.B. Not poisonous. Spores, -0003 X -00019 in.— 10. Agaricus ^Amanita) stxobiliformis. Fr. Fir-cone Amanita. Pileus convex, then expanded, with persistent warts ; margin even ; flesh compact, white ; stem solid, floccoso-squamose, bul- bous, base subterraneous ; volva with the margin acute, concen- tric ; ring torn; gills rounded behind, and free.—Epicr.p. 5. Vitt. Mang. t. 9. Vent. t. 4. Paul. 1.162. Bull. t. 593. Berk. Outl. t. 3, /. 2. Smith E. M.f. 10. Gonn. ^ Babh. i. t. 7, /. 3. Ann. N.H. no. 662. Borders of woods. Rare. Esculent. Pileus when young subglobose, bulb of the stem conical below, rooting, its border sometimes incised all round, sometimes even, floceose above to the edge ot the pileus ; scales of pileus large, wart-like, with a brown disc, and white floceose border, prrsistent, angular. Pileus, when expanded, 8-9 iA. across, at K fi'lTn rri^-™^'?-'', extending beyond the gills, white, cinereous, &c. btem 6-7 in. high 1^ in thick, firm, solid, bulb not properly scaly, veil large : ^lls rounded behind the shorter ones denticulate at the base ' Odour and mens^ ThP n;-^- -^l^'T^ '^^.^^ =^ l^^'^^ ^^^^ well-grown speci- TnP hp^.t'^f patches on the top are not unlike the scales of a fir- of ^jort ^oisfii^^^ ^^^''^ ^--^^ Sect. 4. Validce—Yohro. thin and friable. 11. Agaxicus (Amanita) rubescens. P. Reddish Amanita. Pileus convex,then expanded ; warts unequal,mealy, scattered • flesh becommg reddish ; stem stuffed, attenuated upwards, squam- uiose ; nng entire ; gills attenuated, reaching the stem and form-- B 5