United States.

[Illustration: Plate XIV.
EDIBLE AMANITAS.
Figs. 1 to 4 Ag. (Amanita) Caesareus, Scop. (Amanita Caesarea)
"Orange Amanita."
Figs. 5 to 9 Ag. (Amanita) rubescens. Pers. "The Blusher."
"Reddish Brown Amanita."
EDIBLE.
T. Taylor, del.]

PLATE XIV.

FIGS. 1 to 4. =Ag. (Amanita) Caesareus= Scop. (=Amanita Caesarea=).
"_Orange Amanita_," "_True Orange_."

EDIBLE.

Cap at first convex, afterwards well expanded; _smooth_, free from
warts, striate on the margin; color orange-red or bright lemon-yellow,
with red disk; gills lemon-yellow, rounded near the stem, and free from
it; stem equal or slightly tapering upwards, stuffed with cottony
fibrils, or hollow (color clear lemon-yellow), bearing a yellowish ring
near the top and sheathed at the base with large, loose, membranous,
white volva. Odor faint but agreeable. Spores white, elliptical.

The whole plant is symmetrical in form, brilliant in coloring, clean and
attractive in appearance. The American plant seems to differ in some
slight respects from the European as figured and described in European
works. In Europe the pileus or cap is said to vary in color, being
sometimes white, pale yellow, red or even copper color, although it is
usually orange-yellow. My own observation of the American plant of this
species agrees with that of Prof. Peck in that the cap is uniform in
color, being at first bright reddish-orange or even brilliant red,
fading with age to yellow, either wholly or only on the margin. No white
specimens have been as yet recorded in this country. The red color
disappears in the dried specimens. The striations of the margin are
usually quite deep and long and almost as distant as in the edible
species Amanitopsis _vaginata_. Some European writers have described the
flesh or substance of the cap as yellowish. In our plant the flesh is
white, but stained with yellow or red immediately under the cuticle.
Amanita _Caesarea_ is the only one of the Amanitas which has yellow
gills.

Berkeley, in his "Outlines of British Fungi," describes A. Caesarea as it
is found in some parts of Continental Europe, but states that up to the
date of his writing it had not been found in Great Britain. It is not
recorded in the more recent lists of British fungi by M. C. Cooke nor in
that of Australian fungi by the same author. The species has a wide
range in this country, and though not very common in