Yellow Blusher

Venenarius flavorubescens (Atk.) Murrill, Mycologia 5: 76
1913.
Amanita Jlavorubescens Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 111. 1902.
Pileus convex to expanded, scattered or gregarious, sometimes subcespitose, 6-10 cm. broad; surface flavous with a melleous tint to dark-brownish-melleous, usually darker at the center, adorned with yellow or brownish-yellow, floccose patches which may persist or partly disappear with age, margin faintly striate, usually paler; context thin, yellowish; lamellae free to adnexed, not crowded, oblong-elliptic in outline, white, much resembling those of V. rubens when dry; spores globose to ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-10X5-8 n stipe subequal or tapering upward, usually somewhat enlarged below, but scarcely bulbous, fibrillose or floccose-scaly, at times conspicuously roughened, characteristically tomentose when dry, concolorous or paler above, reddish below, turning slowly to red at the base when bruised, 5-12 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick; annulus ample, membranous, persistent, flavous; volva flavous or nearly so, friable, the fragments remaining on the surface of the pileus and at the base of the stipe or disappearing according to weather conditions.
Type locality: Ithaca, New York. Habitat: Under oaks on lawns or in thin woods. Distribution: New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.