The gills are adnexed, close, narrow, shining, white.
The stem is two to three inches long, stuffed, then hollow, cylindrical, nearly smooth, bulbous, nearly globose at the base, white, almost equal above the bulb.
The volva with its free margin is acute and narrow. The ring is membranaceous, superior, soft, lax, ragged.
Its color is quite as variable and its habits are much like A. phalloides, from which it can only be distinguished by its less developed volva, which, instead of being cup-shaped, is little more than a mere rim fringing the bulb. The odor at times is very strong. It is found in open woods and under brush. Label it poisonous.
Amanita crenulata. Pk.
Figure 25.—Amanita crenulata.
Crenulata means bearing notches, referring to the crenulate form of the gills, which are very distinct.
The pileus is thin, two to two and a half inches broad, broadly ovate, becoming convex, or nearly plane, somewhat striate on the margin, adorned with a few thin whitish floccose warts or with whitish flocculent patches, whitish or grayish, sometimes tinged with yellow.