Murrill: Amanitas of Eastern North America 81 
Described from France, and found in woods and groves 
throughout Europe and parts of Asia. I have been unable to find 
any typical specimens from this country. In the case of V. phal- 
loides,we have white and dark forms abundantly represented, and 
it would seem natural to expect the dark forms of F. pantheriniis 
also if the species occurs here. Beardslee has studied F. cothur- 
natus in North Carolina and F. pantherinus in Sweden, and he 
believes the two to be identical. He found the spores of both 
species to be globose in fresh specimens, changing to ellipsoid 
after the dried plants were kept for several weeks. Amanita 
timbrina Pers. Syn. Fung. 254. 1801 refers to the usual dark 
European form of this species. DeCandolle evidently did not 
use Persoon’s name in Agaricns because it was preoccupied in 
that genus. 
Venenarius porphyrius (Fries) 
Agaricns porphyrins Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 14. 1821. 
Described from Europe, and reported by Beardslee from North 
Carolina. It is near F. phalloides, but the annulus becomes sooty- 
black with age or on drying. 
Venenarius recutitus (Fries) 
Agaricns recutitus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 6. 1838. 
Specimens of Venenarius spretns have been referred to this 
species in America. 
Venenarius spissus (Fries) 
Agaricns spissus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 9. 1838. 
Agaricus virosus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 6. 1838 
This species has often been confused with white forms of 
Venenarius phalloides, from which it is said to differ in its strong 
odor and rough stipe. 
Vagixata (Nees) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. i; 601. 1821 
Amanitopsis Roze, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 23; 50. 1876. 
This genus is distinguished from Venenarius by the absence of 
