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AMANITA<br />
AMANITA GEMMATA (Fr.) Gill. Doubtful<br />
Figures 131, 132, page 71<br />
PILEUS %-2J4<br />
in. broad, at first ovoid to convex, expanding to plane,<br />
slightly depressed in center, occasionally subumbonate, smooth, viscid, gla-<br />
brous or with floccose-membranous, whitish warts on the disk, pale creamy<br />
yellow on the margin, more dingy yellowish to buff on the disk, margin con-<br />
spicuously striate, flesh soft, fragile, thin, white or tinged creamy yellow, odor<br />
not distinctive, lamellae free, close, broad in comparison to the flesh, creamy<br />
white, edge minutely flocculose. stipe 2-4 in. long, Ys-Vs in. thick, nearly<br />
equal or tapering upward shghtly, with a small, round to oval bulb about<br />
*/4-% in. diam. at the base, whitish, finely pruinose at the apex, subglabrous<br />
to appressed-floccose or appressed-fibrillose below, stuffed becoming hollow.<br />
annulus white, membranous, fragile, evanescent or sometimes remaining<br />
attached to the margin of the pileus. volva adnate to the bulb, at first with a<br />
slight free margin forming a collar at the top of the bulb, this later disappearing<br />
and leaving a slightly torn bulb margin, spores white, subglobose to globose,<br />
nonamyloid, 7-10 (11) X 7-9.5 m-<br />
Singly or gregarious on the ground in mixed woods. June-Sept.<br />
This is a rather small, creamy yellowish to buff colored Amanita. The<br />
annulus is very fragile and may disappear very soon so that one would be<br />
inclined to look for the species in Amanitopsis. It might be confused with<br />
A. russuloides.<br />
Konrad and Maublanc assert that they have eaten this species and that it<br />
is edible; however it cannot be recommended.<br />
AMANITA MUSCARIA Fr. Deadly poisonous<br />
Figures 103, 104, page 50; 133, 134, page 71<br />
Fly Agaric<br />
PILEUS 3-8 in. broad, hemispherical, becoming convex, then expanded,<br />
viscid when fresh, striate on the margin, blood-red to scarlet, orange, or yellow,<br />
or sometimes white, darkest on the disk, adorned with thick floccose to pyra-<br />
midal warts which are whitish or tinged buff or straw-yellow, flesh white or<br />
creamy, moderately thick on the disk, thinning to a line at the margin, tinged<br />
yellow under the cuticle, odor not distinctive, lamellae free but reaching the<br />
stipe, close to crowded, rather broad, white or creamy, often minutely floccose<br />
on the edges, stipe 4-8 in. long, V2-% in. thick, equal or tapering upward<br />
above the clavate bulb, stuffed, whitish or tinged yellow, subglabrous above,<br />
lacerate-scaly toward the base from the remains of the torn volva. annulus<br />
large, membranous, white to yellowish, volva whitish or tinged buff or straw<br />
color, broken up into rings of shaggy scaliness on bulb and base of stipe, in<br />
thick warts on the pileus. spores nonamyloid, smooth, white, ellipsoid, 8-1 1 X<br />
6-8 M.<br />
On the ground in scattered groups or large colonies, sometimes in fairy<br />
rings, along roadsides and in open woods. July-Oct.<br />
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