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will not always allow them to be pronounced according to their ety- 

 mology or meaning. For example, it would be fortunate if we could 

 say Myr-i-o-sto'-ina — which means many months — instead of Myr-i- 

 os'-to-ma which is misleading (but I should have pronounced it so on 

 p. 19, Fig. "25!). Bi'-spo-ra would better tell us tivo-sporcs than bis'- 

 po-ra; Pol-y-po'^rus, many pores, than Pol-yp'-o-rtis ; but the laws of 

 evolution of language like Nature's other laws, are inexorable. 



Fig. 32. Am-an-i'-ta stro-bi!-i-for'-mis. Pine-cone Am-an-i'-ta. Edible. White or 

 cinerous, sometimes yellow on the disc, rough with angular, mostly persistent warts. 

 Many species of this genus are poisonous, hut Mcllvainc .says it is among the hest 

 of species; it has a strong, pungent, unmistakable odor, like chloride of lime, which 

 entirely disappears in cooking. 'Ihc species of this genus (Amanita) have a conspic- 

 uous vol'-va, or universal veil, comjjlctely enveloping tiie young plant. Cut from 

 photo by Fred J. Bracndlc, Washington, D. C. 



