CLASSIFICATION OF ACAUH 



lii open frondose woods, solitary. August-September. Detroit. 

 Rare. 



This is easily separated from I. vagiuata i>\ its oblong sport 

 and floccose-scaly pileus. The volva is also more firm and ample. 

 It is said in be identical with .1. agglutinata B. & C. Our >p> 

 mens were brownish throughout on cap and Btem. The gills become 

 dull-brown on drying. According to Peck the volva sometimes 

 Leaves patches <>n the pileus. 



662. Amanitopsis vaginata IV. I'.mm.i 



\';ir. alba Sacc. 



Var. fulva Sacc. 



Var. livida Pk. 



Syst. Myc.j L821. (As Amanita, i 



Illustrations: X. V. State Mas. Rep. 18, L896, Bot. ed. 

 Atkinson, Mushrooms, Plate 23, p. 7.".. L900. 

 Marshall. Mushroom Book, op. p. 54, L905. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Pigs. 30 and 31, p. II. L908. 

 Bresadola, Fungh. mang. e. vel., PL L2. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 75, Fig. L. 

 Minn. Mushrooms, Pig. 5, p. 11. L910. 

 Plates CXXV, CXXV1 of this Report. 



A composite species; according to the presenl custom including 

 a uumber of color forms, here called varieties. The constancy of 

 these varieties indicates thai they could, with entire propriety, be 

 referred to under species names, e. g., Amanitopsis alba, imanitop- 

 sis fulva, ami Amanitopsis livida. The description, however, applies 

 equally well to all forms excepl as to color. 



PILEUS 5-10 em. broad, ovate to campanulate at first, then con 

 vr\ to plane, glabrous or rarely with fragments of the universal 

 xcil sliehth viscid when young or moist. sulcaU striati <<n the thin 

 margin, white, fulvous, or grayish-moust color in the corresponding 

 varieties. FLESH white. <MLLS tier, white or whitish, d 

 broad, broadesl in front, narrowed behind. STEM 8 i x em. long, 

 l 8 mm. thick, rather slender, fragile, glabrous or mealj squamu- 



lose. Btuffed then hollow, -u I m \ 1 jnd Hea I. b08i without " bulb and 



inserted deep into the ground with the elongated, sheathing, flabby, 



