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into the street markets of Genoa by the peasant women and 

 sold as a common article of food. During the past summer 

 when it was next to impossible to procure fresh beef in the 

 markets at Auburn, bushel upon bushel of this funpjus grew 

 and went to waste in a single piece of woods within a mile 

 of town, and in traveling on the railroads quantities of the 

 same bright-colored fungus could be seen from the car win- 

 dows in various other parts of the State. 



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Fig. 2. Amanita c?e«!area ; Edible, showing young plant at the left 

 just emerging from the volva, and fully expanded plant with cup- 

 like volva {vo). annulus or ring (an), lamellae or gills (lam) and 

 smooth pileus (pi). Color of pileus usually bright or orange yellow. 



About S natural size. 



