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Mycologia 



X. Venenarius muscarius (Fries) Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 5: 450. 1909 



Brilliant orange and red sporophores of this deadly species 

 were found in abundance in the sandy pine barrens at Newport, 

 Oregon, and fresh specimens were shown me by Professor 

 Setchell at Berkeley, California. 



Newport, Oregon, Murrill 10^2; Monterey, California, Dudley 

 323- 



2. Venenarius solitarius (Bull.) 



Agaricus solitarius Bull. Herb. Fr. pi 48. 1780. 



Stanford University, California, Dudley 14 McMurphy 6. 



3. Venenarius phalloides (Vaill.) 



Agaricus phalloides Fries, Syst. IMyc. i : 13. 1821. 



No fresh plants of this deadly poisonous species were *seen 

 during my stay on the Coast, but Professor Campbell told me of 

 a white species that occurs about Stanford University having 

 the characters of V. phalloides, and the specimens cited below, 

 which are without notes, may represent it. The spores of these 

 specimens are subglobose to ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-10 X 

 6-7/.. 



Santa Cruz Mountains, California, Dudley pp; Santa Cruz, 

 California, G. J. Streator. 



4. Venenarius ocreatus (Peck) 



Amanita ocreata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 36 : 330. 1909. 



Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, even on the 

 margin, white, flesh white; lamellae close, unequal, broadly sinu- 

 ate, white; stem equal, solid, glabrous or slightly fibrillose be- 

 low the annulus, minutely floccose above, white, the annulus thin, 

 membranaceous, the volva white, soft, deep with an entire free 

 margin; spores subglobose or elliptic, 10-12 X 8-10 



Pileus 4-6 cm. broad; stem 8-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 



Described from specimens collected by Baker under oaks at 

 Claremont, California. Types not seen. Evidently closely re- 

 lated to the white forms of V. phalloides. 



