PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 



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

 cacecB). 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 conmion of mushrooms, dangerous 

 even to handle. 



Fig. 206. — Fly-amanita {Amanita- masraria, Gill-mushroom Family, 

 Agaricacca;). 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 Ix-aring around it flexible shaving-like 

 projections pointing upward, and near the cap a frill-like ring; gills 

 white. (Ohesiiut.) — Native homo, Eurasia, .South Africa, North 

 America; mostly in wooijs. .Scarcely' less poisonous than the death-cup. 



