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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 15 cm. long, thick, heavy and deep in ground. Pileus 15 cm. broad. Spores 10x6/1 (Nuttall, 1101). Caesarea Scop. Preston: common near Brookside (Beardslec). phalloides Fr. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslee). Frostii Peck. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslee). VERNA Bull. Preston: very common near Brookside (Beardslec). STRobiLiFORmis Vitt. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslee). solitaria Bull. Preston : near Brookside. Specimens and photographs secured illustrate both this and the preceding species as they are understood in the United States. They are listed here in spite of the fact that their status is unsatisfactory. Most of our A. solitaria is referred, by European Mycologists, to A. echinocephala Vitt.—Beardslee. Vittadini Fr. Preston : near Brookside. I believe this simply a well marked form of A. echinocephala Vitt.' My specimens and photographs have been carefully verified and show the species, such as it is, to be certainly West Virginian.— Beardslec. RUBESCENS Pers. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslee). spreta Peck. Preston: near Brookside. A. cinerea Bres. is identical with this although our plants much exceed the limits set by Bresadola. It is extremely variable, a pure white form being especially noteworthy. spreta parva Beardslee. var. nov. Pileus i to 1.5 in. broad, thin, almost membraneous, deeply sulcate-striate. Stipe slender, about 2 in. tall. Annulus me dian. Spores, color and volva as in A. spreta. An interesting form, found growing in colonies, in gravel high up on the mountain near Brookside, Preston County. Both Peck and Bresadola arc inclined to consider it a dis tinct species.

LEPIOTA (P. Browne) S. F. Gray. L. procera Scop. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslee). L. nauctna Fr. Preston: near Brookside (Beardslec).