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