60 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



The pileus is common 1}' brownish or tawny, but is sometimes white, 

 and sometimes quite a deep brown, especially on the disk ; the pileus 

 and stipe both are usually quite smooth and glabrous. The volva is 

 commonl}' concealed beneath the surface of the ground, and is liable 

 to be overlooked. Badham says this species is edible, but it was for- 

 merly classed among suspicious fungi. 



Note, — A. virosus, Fr., of Lea's Catalogue, has been omitted because 

 it does not appear to have been recorded elsewhere in the Eastern U. S., 

 and because I have never met with it in the Miami Valle}' ; it seems 

 scarcely possible that I should not have found so conspicuous a fungus. 

 I have an Amanita figured, which is mouse-color, and resembles A. 

 strangulatus, Fr., but the spores are curved and apiculate, and very 

 different in measurement from the latter ; having had but the single 

 specimen, I can not venture to characterize it. Specimens of Amanitas, 

 differing from the seven here described, are earnestly desired by the 

 writer. a. p. m. 



Subgenus II. — Lepiota, Fr. 



Spores white (oreen in No. 10). Hyraenophore discrete from the 

 stipe*. Universal veil concrete with the epidermis of the pileus. 

 Lamellae free (except in No. 21), often remote. Terrestrial. 



A. Pileus dry, scaly. 



a. Annulus movable. 



«'. Pileus brownish, 8, 9. 

 6'. Pileus whitish, 10, 11. 



6. Annulus fixed. 



c/. Pileus reddish, 12^14. 

 d'. Pileus blackish, 15, 16. 

 e'. Pileus whitish, 17, 18. 



B. Pileus dry, granulose, 19 21. 



C. Pileus viscid, 22. 



A. Pileus dry, scaly, 

 a. Annulus movable. 



a'. Pileus reddish brown. 



8. A. PROCERUS, Scop. — Pilous flesh}', soft, ovate, then explanate, 

 umbonate ; cuticle thick, torn into seceding scales. Stipe hollow, 

 tall, bulbous, variegated, with appressed scales. Lamellae remote, 

 spores .0152X-0076 mm. 



