Back at the turn of the 20th Century, a certain Mrs. Williams wrote a few articles about Amanita for the Asa Gray Journal. In one of the articles she lamented that every year it was necessary to learn the “big white” amanitas (lepidellas) over again. They were so hard to keep straight. I say, “Yo, Mrs. Williams!”

…but these were not kept long enough for the distinctive cedar/brown sugar odor to arise. We did run into several Species (like Chanel) Number 5 at Highlands, and kept having to revise our cokeri names! Thanks for the further clues. Damn these difficult lepidellas anyway! I am struggling up that learning curve…