Leucosporss 



well marked bulb to the stem and no evidence remains of a volva at its Amanita. 

 base. Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 24, No. 3. 

 Reported from Kansas only. Qualities unknown. 



A. monticulo'sa Berk. mountain, from the warts. PileilS 2.5-3 m - 

 across, convex, areolate, with a wart in the center of each areola; those 

 toward the margin consisting of soft threads meeting in a point, but 

 sometimes simply flocculent, the central warts angular, pyramidal, trun- 

 cate, discolored. Stem bulbous, scaly, flocculent, white. Veil thick, 

 at length distant. Gills free, ventricose, remote, forming a well-defined 

 area around the top of the stem. The warts are not hard and rigid as 

 in A. nitida, and the free remote gills separate it from that and the 

 neighboring species. Berk. 



North Carolina, sandy woods, common. Curtis. 



Properties not known. 



A. dau'cipes B. and M. da^^c^tm, a carrot; pes, afoot. Pileus 2-5 

 in. broad, hemispherical,' globose. Flesh white, soft, warts regular, 

 pyramidal, saffron color. Gills narrow, reaching the stem, broadest in 

 the middle. Stem 5-6 in. high, solid, base bulbous, with a restricted 

 cortina above, squamulose downward. Veil fibrillose, extending from 

 the margin of the pileus to the apex of the stem, fugacious. 



In cultivated fields. Ohio. Sullivant. Properties not given. 



A. lenticular'is Lasch. resembling (the stem) a lentil. 

 Fries places this species in Amanita, in which Stevenson follows him. 

 Cooke and Massee place it in Lepiota, where it will be found. 





Volva rudimentary, wholly disappearing. 



A. Chlorinos'llia Pk. smelling like chlorine. (Plate VIII, fig. i, 

 p. 1 8.) Pileus convex or expanded, warty on the disk, covered on 

 the even margin with a light powdery, at length evanescent substance, 

 white. Gills white. Stem nearly cylindrical, stout, deeply penetrating 

 the earth. Spores broadly elliptical, 7-10/4 long. Odor distinct, chlo- 

 rine-like. 



Plant 6-7 in. high. Pileus 4-6 in. broad. Stem 1-2 in. thick. 

 Peck, Bot. Gaz., Vol. 4. 



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