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torn in pieces by the expansion of the pileus and at length falling 

 away. Lamellae close, white, tapering inward and reaching the 

 stipe; spores elliptic, 8-10x6-8 mic. 



Growing in rich soil among old leaves in woods. S. Caro- 

 lina, Curtis; Preston, O. Pileus 10-15 cm. in diameter; the stipe 

 15-25 cm. in length including the root, 3-5 cm. thick at the base. 

 This species is one of the forms of Amanita solitaria, so thor- 

 oughly discussed and so elegantly illustrated by Atkinson in 

 "Mushrooms edible, poisonous, etc." 



85. LEPIOTA RADICATA, Amanita radicata Peck, 

 Bull. Torr. Club, 1900. 



Pileus fleshy, subglobose, convex then expanded ; the flesh 

 thin, white ; the dermis composed of large thick persistent scales 

 and warts, all white or becoming dusky ; the veil lacerate, the 

 fragments to some extent appendiculate, at length more or less 

 deciduous. Stipe tapering upward from a thick base and down- 

 ward into a long root, solid, white, fibrillose above, floccose-scaly 

 below. Lamellae broad, close, white, adnexed ; spores oblong, 

 9-1 1 X 5-6 mic. 



Solitary ; growing in grassy ground in thin woods. New 

 Jersey, Sterling; Preston, O. Pileus 5-10 cm. in diameter; the 

 stipe 6-8 cm. long above the rooting portion which is 4-6 cm. 

 in the ground; the base of the stipe 12-20 mm. thick, the apex 

 6-8 mm. thick. This too is only another form of the Amanita 

 solitaria of Atkinson's "Mushrooms." 



86. LEPIOTA DAUCIPES, A. (Amanita) daucipes B. 

 & M. ; Syll. Crypt. 1856. 



Pileus fleshy, globose then convex and expanded ; the flesh 

 thick, compact, white ; the dermis composed of crowded, pyrami- 

 date warts, polygonal at the base and safifron-yellow at the apex ; 

 the veil fibrillose-floccose, yellowish, stretched between the mar- 

 gin of the pileus and the apex of the stipe, at length torn in 

 pieces and disappearing. Stipe solid, with a thick liase, narrowed 

 upward to the apex and tapering downward into a long root, 

 clothed below with broad, imbricate scales. Lamellae rather nar- 

 row, tapering to both ends, white, reaching the stipe ; spores glo- 

 T)ose ( ?). 



Growing in cultivated fields. Columbus. O., Sullizunt. 

 Pileus 6 cm. in diameter; the stipe 12-15 cm. long including the 

 rooting portion, about 5 mm. thick at the narrow apex, but 3-4 

 cm. at the thickened base. The polygonal warts of the pileus 

 are like those of Lepiota Vittadini, but are colored at the apex. 



