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Pileus 8-10 cm. broad, umber-brown, sometimes 
tinged with yellow. 5. 
Volva fragile, adnate to the pileus and stipe as warts, 
patches, or scales ; pileus rarely smooth from the 
first, often becoming smooth with age. 
Flesh at length staining reddish when wounded ; pi- 
leus usually dull-reddish. 6. 
Flesh not staining reddish when wounded. 
Pileus dark-brown, smooth from the first, mar- 
gin not striate. 7. 
Pileus orange to yellow, 8-20 cm. broad ; stipe 
usually rough, with concentric, margined scales 
adnate to the bulbous base. 8. 
Pileus chrome-yellow to orange-yellow, 3-8 cm. 
broad ; stipe slender, smooth, with remnants of 
the fragile, yellowish volva at the base. 9. 
Pileus flavous with a melleous tint to dark- 
brownish-melleous, 6-10 cm. broad; stipe to- 
mentose to floccose-scaly, reddish below, espe- 
cially when bruised; volva yellow, fragile. 10. 
Pileus pale-yellow, 4-5 cm. broad, tuberculate- 
striate on the margin ; stipe smooth, glabrous ; 
volva fragile, subappressed to the bulbous 
base. II. 
Pileus whitish or grayish tinged with yellow, 
with peculiar white, webby patches ; stipe floc- 
cose, mealy above ; volva slight, evanescent. 12. 
Pileus white to grayish or murinous, pulveru- 
lent, warty, or spiny ; stipe bulbous or radi- 
cate ; odor often strong, resembling chlorine. 13. 
V. velatipes. 
V. rubens. 
V. Morrisii. 
V. muscarius. 
V. Pros ianus. 
V. flavorubescens. 
V. rtissuloides. 
V. crenulatus. 
V. solitarius. 
I. Venenarius Caesareus (Scop.) 
Agaricus Caesareus Scop. FI. Cam. ed. 2, 2 : 419. 1772. 
Amanita Caesarea Pers. Syn. Fung. 252. 1801. 
Amanita pellucida Banning & Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 
44: 66. 1892. (Type from Maryland.) 
Described from Europe, and found in woods from New Eng- 
land to Alabama and west to Ohio. 
2. Venenarius spretus (Peck) 
Agaricus (Amanita) spretus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 
32:24. 1879. 
Described from Sandlake, New York, and found in open or 
bushy places in the eastern United States from Maine to Alabama. 
