rgins, and in thin woods. It prefers poor
soil, and is more abundant where poplar and hemlock grow. From June to
frost.

[Illustration: Figure 14.--Amanita muscaria.--_Linn._ One-half natural
size, showing development of the plant.]

_Amanita Frostiana. Pk._

FROST'S AMANITA. POISONOUS.

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Figure 15.--Amanita Frostiana.]

Frostiana, named in honor of Charles C. Frost.

The pileus is convex, expanded, bright orange or yellow, warty,
sometimes smooth, striate on the margin, pileus one to three inches
broad.

The gills are free, white, or slightly tinged with yellow.

The stem is white or yellow, stuffed, bearing a slight, sometimes
evanescent, ring, bulbous, at the base, the bulb slightly margined by
the volva. The spores globose, 8-10u in diameter. _Peck._

Great care should be taken to distinguish this species from A. caesarea
because of its often yellow stem and gills. I found some beautiful
specimens on Cemetery Hill and on Ralston's Run. It is very poisonous
and should be carefully avoided, or rather, it should be thoroughly
known that it may be avoided. The striations on the margin of its yellow
tinge might lead one to mistake it for the Orange Amanita. It is found
in shady woods and sometimes in open places where there is underbrush.
June to October.

_Amanita verna. Bull._

THE SPRING AMANITA. POISONOUS.

[Illustration: Figure 16.--Amanita verna. Two-thirds natural size,
showing the volva cup and the ring.]

Verna, pertaining to spring. This species is considered by some only a
white variety of Amanita phalloides. The plant is always a pure white.
It can only be distinguished from the white form of the A. phalloides by
its closer sheathing volva and perhaps a more ovate pileus when young.

The pileus is at first ovate, then expanded, somewhat depressed, viscid
when moist, even, margin naked, smooth. The gills are free.

The stem is stuffed, with advancing age hollow, equal, floccose, white,
ringed, base bulbous, volva closely embracing the stem with its free
margin, ring forming a broad collar, reflexed. The spores are globose,
8u broad.

This species is very abundant on the wooded hills in this section of the
state. Its pure white color makes it an attractive plant, and it should
be carefully learned. I have found it before the middle of June.

_Amanita magnivelaris. Pk._

THE LARGE VEILED AMANITA. POISONOUS.

Magnivelaris is from _magnus_, la