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mm. thick ; bulb ocreate, with limb narrow, as in V. pantherinus, 
and sometimes very slight ; volval patches may occur in concen- 
tric lines on the lower part of the stipe. 
Rare in open grassy places or thin woods from New York to 
Alabama. This species very much resembles Vcnenarius glahri- 
ceps, but is without an annulus. The volva is white and fits the 
base of the stipe closely like a stocking. Peck called this species 
A. nivalis. 
Lepiota aspera (Pers.) Quel. 
Spiny Lepiota 
Plate 190. Figure 4. X i 
Pileus fleshy, hemispheric to convex and expanded, obtuse, at 
times depauperate, usually 7-12 cm. broad; surface appressed- 
tomentose, pale-ferruginous, decorated, especially near the center, 
with brown, compact, sometimes pointed, wart-like, separable 
scales ; context moderately thick, white or yellowish ; lamellae 
rather narrow, closely crowded, sometimes forked, white or yel- 
lowish, tapering behind, free, approximate; spores 5-10 X 2— 4/x; 
stipe thick, tapering upward from the bulbous base, fistulose or 
fibrous-stuffed, white and pruinose above the annulus, tomentose 
or fibrillose-scaly and ferruginous below, usually 8-12 cm. long, 
8-12 mm. thick at the apex, and 1&-25 mm. thick at the base ; veil 
usually large, white, membranous, persistent, adherent in places 
to the margin of the pileus and annulate upon the stipe, at times 
reduced and fibrillose. 
A rather frequent species in rich soil or humus in shaded places 
throughout most of the United States, and known under several 
names, such as Lepiota acutesquarnosa, L. Friesii, L. asperula, 
and L. eriophora. It varies considerably in size and in the char- 
acter of the spines, which are often reduced to mere wart-like, 
readily separable scales. 
Venenarius phalloides (Fries) Murrill 
Amanita phalloides Quel. 
Deadly Amanita Destroying Angel 
Plate 190. Figure 5. X 1 
Pileus convex or campanulate to expanded, 3-15 cm. broad; 
surface smooth, slightly viscid when moist, glabrous or decorated 
with scattered patches of the volva, varying in color from pure- 
white to yellow, yellowish-green, green, gray, brown, or blackish, 
