PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 



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Fig. 205. 



Fig. 206. 



Fig. 205. — -Death-cup (Amanita phalloides, Gill-mushroom Family, Agari- 

 caceoe). 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. 



Fig. 206. — Fly-amanita (Amanita 77iuscaria, Gill-mushroom Family, 

 Agaricacea). 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 mostlj' 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. Scarcelj- less poisonous than the death-cup. 



