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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



in Siberia," and Cooke's "Seven Sisters of Sleep," you will find a full description 

 of the toxic employment of this fungus which will far surpass any possible 

 imagination. 



It caused the death of the Czar Alexis of Russia ; also Count de Vecchi, with 

 a number of his friends, in Washington in 1896. He was in search of the Orange 

 Amanita and found this, and the consequences were serious. 



Figure 15. Amar : ta Frostiana. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 



In size, shape, and color of the cap there is similarity, but in other respects 

 the two are very different. They may be contrasted as follows : 



Orange Amanita, edible. Cap smooth, gills yellow, stem yellow, wrapper 

 persistent, membranaceous, white. 



Fly Amnita, poisonous. Cap warty, gills, white, stem white, or slightly yel- 

 lonnsh, wrapper soon breaking into fragments or scales, white or sometimes yel- 

 lowish brown. 



Found along roadsides, wood margins, and in thin woods. It prefers poor 

 soil, and is more abundant where poplar and hemlock grow. From June to frost. 



