Amanita morrisii Peck 1910

Venenarius morrisii (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 75. 1913
Amanita Morrisii Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 139: 42. 1910.
Pileus somewhat bell-shaped to broadly convex, 5-10 cm. broad; surface viscid when moist, with a separable pellicle, glabrous, not adorned with volval fragments, dark-grayishbrown or blackish-brown, slightly paler with age or on drying, margin not striate; lamellae crowded, narrow, white, slightly adnexed, rounded behind; spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid,' smooth, hyaline, 8-10X6-8 fi; stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, somewhat bulbous, flocculose, at times grayish and striate at the apex, usually white, solid or stuffed, 8-14 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick; annulus superior, double, radiate-striate above, whitish-buff
beneath, persistent; volva slight, whitish-buff, fragile, evanescent, the fragments sometimes
partly adhering to the bulb but never seen on the surface of the pileus.
Typb locality: Natick Swamp, Massachusetts. Habitat: Among mosses in swampy places. Distribution: Massachusetts.