MUSHROOM GROWING 



Lepiota. On the other hand, the ring, or 

 veil, might be broken, and then with only a 

 volva the plant might be mistaken for an 

 Amanitopsis — also a genus with edible spe- 

 cies. Young stages in meadows have been 

 mistaken, indeed, for buttons of Agaricus 

 campestris. 



The Deadly Amanita, A. phalloides, oc- 

 curs in favorable situations throughout the 

 United States. It grows in woods or mead- 

 ows, and the attractive plant may attain a 

 height of about 6 inches and a pileus diam- 

 eter of about 4 inches. Usually the upper 

 surface of the pileus is smooth, at least no 

 small scales occur, and it is ordinarily gray- 

 ish, brownish, or greenish in tone, yet a 

 form of the species with white cap is de- 

 scribed. The casual observer might mis- 

 take the latter for a Lepiota, L. naucinoides, 

 for example. The Destroying Angel, 

 Amanita verna (Plate VIII, b), is also a 

 pure white plant regarded by some as a 

 white form of the preceding. 



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