. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. LEUCOSPORI. II. B. RING OBLITERATED OR WANTING. Amanita. 15. A. vaginatus Bull.—Pileus cent. (2-5 in.) broad, livid, &c., slightly fleshy, at first campanulate then flattened ob- tuse and even, smooth, naked and rarely covered with fragments of the volva, moist in rainy weather, some- what shining when dry, at the mar- gin wholly membranaceous, elegantly sulcate like the teeth of a comb; flesh whitish. Volva wholly free, sheath- ing, lax, fragile. Stem hollow, with spider-web fibrils within, attenuated equally
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. LEUCOSPORI. II. B. RING OBLITERATED OR WANTING. Amanita. 15. A. vaginatus Bull.—Pileus cent. (2-5 in.) broad, livid, &c., slightly fleshy, at first campanulate then flattened ob- tuse and even, smooth, naked and rarely covered with fragments of the volva, moist in rainy weather, some- what shining when dry, at the mar- gin wholly membranaceous, elegantly sulcate like the teeth of a comb; flesh whitish. Volva wholly free, sheath- ing, lax, fragile. Stem hollow, with spider-web fibrils within, attenuated equally from the base, commonly slen- der, but when larger as much as (i in.) thick, very soft however and fragile, externally torn into squamules. Ring obsolete. Gills free, ventricose, not much Crowded, shining white or II. Agaricus (Amanita) vaginattts. , One-quarter natural size. becoming pale. The ring though obsolete is present, more or less conspicuous at the base of the stem, disclosed in the volva. The stem is somewhat stuffed when very robust. Two forms may be noted as varieties : (a.)/ulva, pileus and volva tawny : A. fulvus Schccff. t. 95. PL Dan. t. 2142. A. trilobus Bolt. t. i. (b) alba, wholly white : A. fungites Batschf. 79. A. nivalis Grev. t. 18. The tawny and brightly coloured forms appear in summer; the livid and fuscous forms, which are the larger, in autumn. In woods, &c. Common. June-Nov. Stem as much as 15 cent. (6 in.) long. Spores sphaeroid or subsphaeroid 10-15 mk. K. ; nearly spherical, 10-14 mk. B. ; 9 x 8 mk. Edible, and of excellent flavour, though reckoned among dangerous species by older authors. The chief objection to its use as food is the thinness of the flesh, Name—vagina, a sheath. Bull t. 98, 512. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 2. Hym. Eur. p. 27. Berk. Out. p. 91. /. 3. / 4. C. Hbk. n. i. Illust. PI. 12. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 12. PL Dan. t. 1014. Krombh. t. i. / 5, /. 6-9. Vittad. t. 16. Hussey ii. /. 34. Bar la t. 5. Ventur. t. 5.
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