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Rtill the relationship is so close between iiiis variety and the 

 trne flj amanita thai I would doI advise any one to experiment 

 Willi il as feed. 



Tricholoma peckii Howe 



This specie! agrees rery closejy with the description given by 

 Pries of A r mill a r i a a a r An t ia , from which it scarcely 

 differ! except in the character of the ornamentation of the 

 si. in and in the absence of any semblance or form of an annulus. 

 In our plant the scales of the stem are very small and not 

 rerrucose nor concentrically arranged as indicated by the 

 Friesian description and figure of A. aurantia in Icones 

 Kymmomyeetom. Pries himself says that there is no distinct 

 annulus present in A . a u r a n t i a , but the scales of the stem 

 definitely and concentrically ceasing 2-3 lines from the top of 

 the stem afford an annular zone. It seems strange that on 

 such slight evidence as this he should place the species in the 

 genus Armillaria while its alliance with the genus Tricholoma 

 much more Btrongly indicated by other, characters. In our 

 plant there is a Blight downy pruinosity on the margin of the 

 pileufl in I he young state, which is good evidence of its relation- 

 ship to the genus Tricholoma, but it is possible that this char- 

 acter is not present in the European plant, for I find no men- 

 tion made of it in the descriptions of A. aurantia. The 

 id p ileus and the change of color assumed by the lamellae 

 with advancing age in our plant point so clearly to an intimate 

 alliance with Bucb Bpecies as T. f 1 a v o b r u n n eum , T. 

 albobrunneum, T. as talis, and T. stans, that 

 r evidence than any we have yet seen in it would be 

 essary to induce us to disregard this alliance and place it 

 in Annillaria. Ii is perhaps worthy of note that while desig- 

 nating the European plant, which he considers the same as the 

 A.garicus aurantius of Schaeffer, as an Annillaria, 

 Pries, in the work already mentioned, has actually placed both 

 the description and the figure of ii among the descriptions 

 and figures of species <>f the genus Tricholoma, and he himself 

 that the species is ambiguous between Annillaria and 



