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a veil. Because of the usually prominent sheath or volva in 
species of both genera, it was formerly customary to regard them 
as belonging to the same genus, and to speak of them all as 
“ Amanitas.” 
Volva membranous, free; stipe not bulbous. 
Volva narrow, closely sheathing the stipe. 
Volva elongate, persistent; lamellae white; pileus 
variously colored. i. V.plumbea 
Volva short, rather friable; lamellae lemon-yellow; 
pileus orange-red. 2. V. parcivolvata. 
Volva wide, not sheathing ; pileus dull-white to yellowish, 
rarely reddish-brown, usually floccose or scaly. 3. 
Volva membranous, adnate to the base of the bulbous stipe, 
limb free. 
Stipe less than 3 cm. long; pileus pale-brown. 4. 
Stipe much longer; pileus white or yellowish. 5. 
Volva fragile, adnate to the pileus and stipe in the form of 
squamules or patches. 
Pileus mealy or densely floccose ; less than 5 cm. broad. 6. V.farinosa. 
Pileus decorated with few or many patches ; usually more 
than 5 cm. broad. V. plumbea strangulata. 
V. agglutina a. 
V. pusilla. 
V. albocreata. 
I. Vaginata plumbea (Schaeff.) 
Agariciis plumbeus Schaeff. Fung. Bav. 4: 37. pi. 8§, 86. 1774. 
Agariciis ftilvus Schaeff. Fung. Bav. 4: 41. pi. 95. 1774. 
Agaricus hyalinus Schaeff. Fung. Bav. 4: 63. pi. 244. 1774. 
Agariciis badius Schaeff. Fung. Bav. 4; 63. pi. 24^. 1774. 
Agariciis vaginatus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. p8. 1782. 
Amanita livida Pers. Syn. Fung. 247. 1801. 
Amanita spadicea Pers. Syn. Fung. 248. 1801. 
Vaginata livida S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. i : 601. 1821. 
Amanitopsis vaginata P. Karst. Hattsv. i : 6. 1879. 
Vaginata vaginata Murrill, Mycologia 3: 80. 1911. 
Described from Bavaria, and occurring very commonly in woods 
and groves from Greenland to Alabama and west to Oregon and 
California; also sparingly in the northern Bahamas and the moun- 
tains of Jamaica. A number of names have been assigned to the 
various forms and colors of the plant by European mycologists. 
That assigned by Schaeffer to the common gray variety appears 
to be the earliest. 
