WHITE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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floccose scaly and abruptly bulbous below. The annulus is superior, 

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

 times tearing, as in A. virosa. The volva is circumscissile, the margin 

 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 A. mappa. Figure 63 shows these characters well. 



Figure 63. Amanita floccocephala (natural size). Copyright. 



Amanita velatipes Atkinson. Properties Unknown. This plant is very 

 interesting since it shows in a striking manner the peculiar way 

 in which the veil is formed in some of the species of Amanita. 

 Though 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 vicinity of Ithaca, 

 N. Y. The mature plant is from 15-20 cm. high, the cap from 

 8-10 cm. broad, and the stem 1-1.5 cm. in thickness. 



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

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



