SUPPLEMENT 



Amanita Frostiana pallidipes n. var. (See A. Frostiana, page 16.) 

 In his report of the New York State Botanist for 1899, Prof. Charles 

 H. Peck describes a new variety of Amanita Frostiana as follows: 



The typical form of this species, which is common in our cool north- 

 ern woods, has the pileus and annulus, and usually the stem also, of a 

 yellow color, that of the pileus sometimes verging to orange. But in 

 warmer and more open or bushy places forms occur in which the whole 

 plant is whitish, but in other respects has the characters of the species. 

 Sometimes the pileus is pale-yellow and the stem and annulus white. 

 The warts are soft and flocculent, are sometimes numerous and persist- 

 ent, and again are few or wanting. The form with yellow stem and 

 annulus and yellow or orange pileus may be considered the typical form 

 of the species, but forms having the stem and annulus pale or white 

 may be designated as variety pallidipes. Peck, 53d Rep. N. Y. State 

 Bot. 



Undoubtedly POISONOUS. Mcllvaine. 



Lepiota Morgani Pk. (See page 37.) The majority of mycopha- Lepiota 

 gists are immune to the poison of this species. Yet many cases of 

 severe, but not fatal poisoning by it came within the writer's knowl- 

 edge during the season of 1900-1901. 



A valuable report is contained in a letter from George B. Clement- 

 son, attorney, Lancaster, Wis. : 



* Lepiota Morgani has grown in this locality this season in 

 unusual abundance. While I was absent last week, my father picked a 

 number, mistaking them for L. procera, and my mother, in preparing 

 them for the table, ate a small piece of the cap of one a piece, she 

 assures me, no larger than a hickory nut. About two hours afterward 

 and shortly after dinner (at which the mushrooms were not served, and 



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