MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS 



Voh-a forming rings or scales on a bulb-like base ; 

 gills usually white or whitish 



( 1 ) ^\l■lole plant dull red ; flesh reddening when 



bruised A. riibescens 



( 2 ) Stem white or yellowish ; flesh not reddening 



(a) Cap 3-6 cm. wide; spores globose A. jrostiana 



(b) Cap 8-15 cm. wide; spores elliptic A. viuscarla 



Amanita phalloides Death Cup, Deadly Amanita 



C a p 4-10 cm. wide, usually white, more rarely olive, brown or yellow, slimy when 



moist, smooth or rough- 

 ened with a few large or 

 many small fragments 

 of the volva ; globose, 

 then bell-shaped and 

 finally expanded ; stem 

 tall, stout, 7-13 cm. by 

 10-15 mm., white, rarely 

 dark, usually smooth, 

 bulbous, hollow above, 

 ring superior, large, 

 drooping, white, ^' o 1 v a 

 usually large with a free 

 border, but extremely 

 variable ; gills white 

 and usually free, rare- 

 ly slightly touching : 

 spores globoid, 8-10/^. 

 Connnon in forest 

 and woodland from June 

 to Dctober ; the deadliest 

 of all the gill fungi, but 

 easily a\-oided by the col- 

 lector if he rejects all 

 mushrooms with both 

 ring and volva. This 

 sjjecies causes the major- 

 A m a n i t a v e r n a is probably 



FlGLRE 2. 



A.MAXIJW MlR.XA 



Deadly! 



itv of the deaths due to eating poisonous forms, 

 only a form of this species ; it is equally deadly. 



Amanita solitaria Solitary Amanita 



Cap large, 7-15 cm. wide, white or grayish, rarely brownish, the surface often 

 covered with flaky granules or distinct scales which are easily rubbed off, stickintr to 



