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Fig. 205. 
Fic. 205.—Death-cup (Amanita phalloides, Gill-mushroom Family, Agari- 
Fic. 
cacee). Mushroom growing 7-20 cm. tall; cap white, straw-color, 
greenish, light brown, or yellow, uniformly or more or less spotted; 
smooth and satiny, convex at first, finally becoming concave; stalk 
white, and nearly smooth, bearing generally at the more or less swollen 
base a conspicuous cup-like envelope which may lie partly under 
ground, and near the cap a drooping ring or ‘‘frill’’; gills white. (Ches- 
nut.)—Native home, Europe and North America, mostly in woods. 
The most poisonous and one of most common of mushrooms, dangerous 
even to handle. 
206.—Fly-amanita (Amanita muscaria, Gill-mushroom Family, 
Agaricacew). Mushroom growing about 10-14 cm. tall, highly at- 
tractive in appearance, smell, and taste; cap strongly convex at first, 
becoming flat or concave, white, yellow, orange to bright red, com- 
monly deeper-colored toward the center, sticky when moist, always 
bearing warts of a: mostly paler color; stalk bulbous at the base, with- 
out a conspicuous cup but bearing around it flexible shaving-like 
projections pointing upward, and near the cap a frill-like ring; gills 
white. (Chesnut.)—Native home, Eurasia, South Africa, North 
America; mostly in woods. Scarcely less poisonous than the death-cup. 
