=Amanitopsis farinosa= Schw.--The mealy agaric, or powdery amanita, is a pretty little species. It was first collected and described from North Carolina by de Schweinitz (Synop. fung. Car. No. 552, 1822), and the specimens illustrated in Fig. 78 were collected by me at Blowing Rock, N. C., during September, 1899. Peck has given in the 33rd Report N. Y. State Mus., p. 49, an excellent description of the plant, though it often exceeds somewhat the height given by him. It ranges from 5--8 or 10 cm. high, the cap from 2--3 cm. broad, and the stem 3--6 mm. in thickness. The =pileus= is from subglobose to convex and expanded, becoming nearly plane or even depressed by the elevation of the margin in old specimens. The color is gray or grayish brown, or mouse colored. The pileus is thin, and deeply striate on the margin, covered with a grayish floccose, powdery or mealy substance, the remnant of the evanescent volva. This substance is denser at the center and is easily rubbed off. The =gills= are white and free from the stem. The =spores= are subglobose and ovate to elliptical, 6--7 µ long. The =stem= is cylindrical, even, hollow or stuffed, whitish or gray and very slightly enlarged at the base into a small rounded bulb which is quite constant and characteristic, and at first is covered on its upper margin by the floccose matter from the volva. [Illustration: PLATE 24, FIGURE 79.--Lepiota naucina. Entirely white (natural size).] At Blowing Rock the plants occurred in sandy soil by roadsides or in open woods. In habit it resembles strikingly forms of _Amanitopsis vaginata_, but the volva is entirely different (Fig. 78). Although _A. vaginata_ was common in the same locality, I searched in vain for intermediate forms which I thought might be found. Sometimes the floccose matter would cling together more or less, and portions of it remained as patches on the lower part of the stem, while depauperate forms of _A. vaginata_ would have a somewhat reduced volva, but in no case did I find intermediate stages between the two kinds of volva. LEPIOTA Fr. The genus _Lepiota_ lacks a volva, but the veil is present forming a ring on the stem. The genus is closely related to _Amanita_, from which it differs in the absence of the volva, or perhaps more properly speaking in the fact that the universal veil is firmly connected (concrete with) with the pileus, and with the base of the stem, so that a volva is not formed. The gills are usually free from the stem, some being simply adnexed, but in some species connected with a collar near the stem. The stem is fleshy and is easily separable from the cap. A number of the species are edible. Peck, 35th Report N. Y. State Mus., p. 150--164, describes 18 species. Lloyd, Mycol. Notes, November, 1898, describes 9 species.