abundance during the coming season and that characteristic photographs 
be made. As we find it, it is not far from A. vaginata. 
AMANITA MUSCARIA VAR. COCCINEA. 
Pileus ovate or nearly hemispherical, then campanulate, becom¬ 
ing plane or centrally depressed, bright red fading with age, thickly 
covered with the corky remains of the volva, soon becoming smooth, 
viscid : lamellae free, distinctly yellow, yellow pulverulent on the mar¬ 
gin ; stipe slender, tapering upward, floccose; volva friable soon dis¬ 
appearing ; annulus lacking. Spores 9-11 by 6-7 me. 
Growing in clay soil, common. 
This is in some ways the most attractive Amanita of this region. 
It was found repeatedly at Asheville, and was so abundant and constant 
in its characters that it seemed best to describe it as a distinct va¬ 
riety. The fact that several species of Amanita are occasionally found 
with no annulus, and that the pulverulent coating on the margin of the 
lamellae is doubtless the rudiment of that structure, has led us to 
consider it simply a well marked variety of A. muscaria, to which its 
close relationship is apparent, but it is felt that its separation as a va¬ 
riety will be a convenience to such mycologists as shall find it in their 
territory. It is possible that it may prove to be Fries’s A. gemmata, 
though it does not agree perfectly with his description. 
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