60 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
The pileus is commonly 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 
commonly 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. 
Notz.—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 Valley ; 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. . As BoM, 
SuspGEeNnus IJ.—Leprora, Fr. 
Spores white (green in No. 10). Hymenophore discrete from the 
stipe. Universal veil concrete with the epidermis of the pileus. 
Lamelle free (except in No. 21), often remote. Terrestrial. 
A. Pileus dry, scaly. 
a. Annulus movable. 
a’. Pileus brownish, 8, 9. 
b’. 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 movadle. 
a’, Pileus reddish brown. 
8. A. PRocERUS, Scop.—Pileus fleshy, soft, ovate, then explanate, 
umbonate ; cuticle thick, torn into seceding scales. Stipe hollow, 
tall, bulbous, variegated, with appressed scales. Lamellze remote, 
spores .0152.0076 mm. 
