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Type locality: Bavaria. 



Habitat: Woods and groves. 



Distribution: Greenland to Alabama and west to Oregon and California; sparingly in the 

 northern Bahamas and the mountains of Jamaica; also in Europe and Asia. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pi. 17; Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi /. 77; Boudier, 

 Ic. Myc. pi. 7; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 98, 512; Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 2: pi. 34; Mcllv. Am. Fungi pi. 10, 

 f. 1; Mycologia 1 : pi. 7, f. 5; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 85, 86, 95, 244, 245; Vitt. Descr. Funghi Mang. 

 pi. 16; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 1116, 1317; Gill. Champ. Fr. pi. 22 {21), 23 (24), 24 (23), 22. 



Exsiccati: Herpell, Prap. Hutpilze 77; Rav. Fungi Am. 397; Karst. Finl. Fungi 202; Sydow, 

 Myc. Mar. 1507; Shear, N. Y. Fungi 4. 



2. Vaginata velosa (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 239. 1912. 



Amanitopsis velosa Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 485. 1895. 



Pileus globose to bell-shaped, at length nearly plane, 5-10 cm. broad; surface buff or 

 orange-buff, glabrous, with conspicuous, white, felty volval patches, margin sulcate-striate ; con- 

 text firm, white; lamellae reaching the stipe, crowded, subventricose, pale-cremeous; spores 

 globose, smooth, hyaline, 10-12 ju; stipe tapering upward when young, at length subequal, 

 not bulbous, white or whitish, stuffed, 7-10 cm. long, 0.5-1 cm. thick; volva large, thick, 

 membranous, closely sheathing, at times spreading at the apex. 



Type locality: Pasadena, California. 

 Habitat: Old pastures and thin woods. 

 Distribution: Southern California. 



3. Vaginata parcivolvata (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 83. 1913. 



Amanitopsis parcivolvata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 610. 1900. 



Amanita muscaria coccinea Beardslee, Jour. EHsha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 24: 120. 1908. 



Pileus hemispheric or convex to plane or depressed, 5-10 cm. broad; surface brilliant- 

 orange-red, fading to yellow with age or on the margin, adorned with volval fragments which 

 soon disappear, leaving the surface smooth and viscid, margin plicate-striate ; context white 

 tinged with orange, reddish under the cuticle; lamellae free, broad, rounded at the outer 

 extremity, distinctly lemon-yellow, pulverulent or floccose on the edges; spores broadly ellip- 

 soid, smooth, hyaline, 9-12X6-8 ft; stipe slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, floccose 

 or mealy, lemon-yellow, rarely fading to white, stuffed or hollow, 8-12 cm. long, 8-12 mm. 

 thick ; volva white, slight, friable, evanescent. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 

 Habitat: Under oaks in thin woods. 

 Distribution : New Jersey to North Carolina. 

 Illustration: N. Marshall, Mushr. Book pi. 1. 



4. Vaginata agglutinata (Berk. & Curt.) O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3: 



539. 1898. 



Agaricus agglutinatus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 1: 97. 1849. 

 Agaricus volvalus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 59. 1872. 

 Agaricus soleatus Howe, Bull. Torrey Club 5: 42. 1874. 

 Amanitopsis agglutinata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 23. 1887. 

 Amanitopsis volvata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 23. 1887. 



Pileus hemispheric to plane, sometimes slightly depressed, very variable in size, 2-8 cm. 

 broad; surface dull-white or yellowish, rarely reddish-brown at the center or entirely reddish- 

 brown, pulverulent, rloccose-squamose, or with large volval patches; lamellae free, rounded 

 behind, broad, crowded, white; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 10-12X6-7 ,u; stipe very 

 variable in size, 1-7 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick, equal or tapering upward, enlarged at the base, 

 whitish, minutely floccose-squamose, stuffed or solid; volva unusually large, firm, membranous, 

 persistent, more or less lobed. 



Type locality: Society Hill, South Carolina. 



Habitat: Open woods and wood borders. 



Distribution: New England to Alabama and west to Ohio; also in Europe, 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. S3: pi. A,f. 6-10; Mycologia 5: pi. 86, pi. 87, f. 2, 



