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Key to Species. 



Margin of pileus even, lamellae adnate A. adnata. 



Margin of pileus deeply suleate, lamellae free. .A. vaginata. 



Amanitopsis adnata Smith. 



Pileus pale buff-yellow, fleshy, very firm, almost rigid, some- 

 what moist, convex then expanded, buff beneath the cuticle, 

 margin extending beyond the lamellae. 



Lamellae adnate, crowded, white. 



Stem stuffed then hollow, pale buff, fibrillose; volva lax, adnate 

 or almost obsolete, white, pubescent, remaining in wooly patches 

 on the pileus. 



Spores 10 x S /a. Pileus 6 to 7.5 cm. broad; stem 5 to 10 cm. 

 high, 1.5 cm. thick. 



Wooded sand dunes at the head of Lake Michigan, Millers, 

 Ind. June. 



Amanitopsis vaginata Bull. 



Pileus thin, slightly fleshy, campanulate then flattened, obtuse 

 and even, smooth or with a few fragments of the volva adhering, 

 margin wholly membranaceous and deeply sulcate-striate. 



Lamellae free, ventricose, not much crowded, shining white or 

 becoming pale. 



Stem hollow with spider-web fibrils within, attenuated equally 

 from the base; volva wholly free, sheathing, lax, fragile. Color 

 variable, white, livid, mouse-gray or tawny-yellow. 



Spores sphaeroid or subsphaeroid, 8 to 10 //.. Pileus 5 to 12.5 

 cm. broad; stem 15 to 20 cm. high, 5 to 2 cm. thick. 



In woods, throughout. July to September. Usually solitary. 

 Edible, but not especially recommended on account of the thin- 

 ness of the flesh. 



LEPIOTA. 



Plants with an annulus but no volva; hymenophore distinct 

 from the fleshy stem: lamellae free, often remote; annulus often 

 moveable; pileus usually scaly. Growing on the ground. Spores 

 white (greenish in L. Morgani). 



Margin of pileus even 1 



Margin of pileus more or less striate 7 



1. Ring movable on the stem 2 



Ring fixed 3 



2. Lamellae whitish L. procera. 



2. Lamellae greenish L. Morgani. 



3. Pileus beset with erect scales 4 



4. Pileus ferruginous-fuscous L. Friesii. 



4. Pileus whitish or yellowish L. acutesquamosa. 



3. Pileus with fibrillose or floccose appressed scales 5 



5. Scales soon disappearing near the 



margin L. cristata. 



5. Scales everywhere persistent L. rubrotincta. 



