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MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS 



LEPIOTA 



The cap separates readily from tlie stem at the point of attachment, and is 

 more or less scaly. The stem bears a rin^^ which is either fixed or movable, and in 

 the smaller forms often disappears after the cap expands. The gills are free from 

 the stem, rarelv touchiivj;, and are tvpicallv white, though greenish in one species. 



Fk.ire 6. Lepiota procera 



Lepiota differs from Amanita and Amanitopsis in tlie absence of tlie- 

 volva, and from A m a n i t o p s i s also in the presence of a ring. All our species of 

 Lepiota grow on the ground, and are edible, though one or two are known to be 

 somewhat poisonous to certain people. (Ireat care must be taken not to confuse 

 with Lepiota those species of Amanita in which the volva is fragmentary or- 

 disappears early. 'I'he name refers to the scaly caj). 



