VVHITE-SP()Rl:D AGAFVICS. 



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floccose scaly and abruptly bulbous below. TIh- annulus is superior, 

 that is, near the upper end of the stem, membranaceous, thin, some- 

 times tearing, as in .-/. lirosa. Thr volva is ciri. umsissle, the marjiin 

 of the bulb not being clear cut and prominent, because there is much 

 refuse matter and soil interwoven with the lower portion of the volva. 

 The bulb closely resembles those in Cooke's figure (Illustrations, 4) 

 of /I. mjppa. Figure 63 shows these characters well. 



FiGiiRE 63. — Amanita floccocepala (natural size). Copyright 1900. 



Amanita velatipes Atkinson. Properties Unknown. — Ihis plant is \ ery 

 interesting since it shows in a striking manner the peculiar way 

 in which the \eil is formed in some of the species of Amatiita. 

 Tliough not possessing brilliant colors, it is handsome in its form and 

 in the peculiar setting of the volva fragments on the rich brown or 

 faint yellow of the pileus. It has been found on several occasions 

 during the month of July in a beech woods on one of the old flood 

 plains of Six-mile creek, one of the gorges in the \icinity of Ithaca, 

 N. Y. The mature plant is from 1 1;-20 cm. higli, the cap from 

 8-10 cm. broad, and the stem i-i.;; cm. in thickness. 



The pileus is viscid when moist, rounded, then broadly oval and 

 convex to expanded, striate on the margin, sometimes in old 



