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Gills, close, free, white. 



Stem, equal, tapering upwards, stuffed, minutely floccose, 

 scaly, ringless, white. 



Volva, large, firm, loose. 



Plant two to three inches broad. One of Peck's Amanitopsis. 



Volvate Amanita was found in the woods near the road leading from 

 East Texas to Allentown, near Hartzell's schoolhouse. 



A. vaginata. Bull. Sheathed Amanita. 



Pileus, two to three inches broad, campanulate, color vari- 

 ous from nearly white to fuscous or smoky ; margin striated or 

 sulcate, flesh white, thin. 



Gills, free, shining white, ventricose. 



Stem, liollow, with a spider-web fibrous living, attenuated 

 upwards. Ring obsolete. 



Volva, free, lax, sheathing the base of the stem. 



This is an exception to the typical Amanita since it is minus 

 a developed ring. Peck made another genus for this species 

 and the A. volvatus, and called it Amanitopsis. On account 

 of the different colors this species assumes, there are a number 

 of varieties. A. aurantiaca, A. fulva are the principals. 



It is one of the most common of the exannulate amanita. It is one of 

 the earliest and keeps on till late in fall. The name vaginatus is from 

 the large membraneous sheath at the base of the stipe. All the other 

 characters are in common with the exception of the annulus, which 

 is wanting. The color of pileus is variable, from grayish-brown to 

 grayish-yellow. 



A. farinosa. Schw. Mealy Agaric. 



Pileus, nearly plane, thin, flocculent, pulverulent, widely 

 and deeply striate on the margin, grayish-brown or livid-brow^n. 

 Gills, free, whitish. 

 Stem, whitish or pallid, equal, stufied or hollow, mealy, 



