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Mycologia 
Agaricus (Amanita) chlorinosmiis Peck in Austin, Bull. Torrey 
Club 6: 278. 1878. (Type from Closter, New York.) 
Amanita Candida Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 137. 1897. (Type 
from Alabama.) 
Ama>nVa /’rafmco/o Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 138. 1897. (Type 
from Kansas.) 
Amanita multisquamosa Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 53: 
840. 1900. (Type from New York.) 
Amanita radicata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 27 : 609. 1900. (Type 
from New Jersey.) 
Amanita cinereoconia Atk. Ann. Myc. 7 : 366. 1909. (Type from 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.) 
Described from Europe, and known in the United States from 
New York to Alabama and west to California, growing either in 
open ground or in thin woods. The species is very variable and 
has been much discussed under a variety of names, some of them 
older than the ones here listed. A number of other synonyms 
might be added. 
The variations appear in several characters and are conspicu- 
ous. The color is usually white, but varies to yellowish, cinereous, 
gray, or murinous. The surface may be pulverulent, or adorned 
with flat, gemmate, or spiny scales, which sometimes persist and 
at other times disappear and leave the surface glabrous. The veil 
usually tears into shreds, but may persist as an ample annulus. 
The volva is usually fragile like the veil, but cup-shaped or ocreate 
forms occur. The base of the stipe may be bulbous, or enlarged 
and radicate, or slender and radicate. The spores are ellipsoid, 
but vary much in size, some measurements being as low as 7-10 
X 5-7 and others reaching 12-14 X 7~9 ji*- Even the peculiar 
odor noted in some specimens and described as resembling that of 
chlorine, chloride of lime, or nitric acid, is definitely stated by 
responsible collectors to be entirely absent in many cases. 
We have represented in this species one of those widely dis- 
tributed and prevailing types in which variation has run riot, to 
the confusion of the student and the amazement of the specialist. 
It would be well if some advanced student or investigator could 
devote his attention to the morphology of these various forms, 
studying them as a group, and endeavor to determine the lines 
