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etc. It has been highly esteemed as an article of diet since the time of the early 

 Greeks. It is particularly abundant during rainy weather and may occur solitary, 

 several together, or in definite rings. Although this species is edible, great caution 

 should always be used in order not to confound it with Amanilar Frostiana, which is 

 poisonous. The points of difference of these two species are conveniently compared 

 as follows: 



Fig. 264. — Fruit bodies of fairy-ring toadstool {Marasmius oreades). (After 

 Patterson, Flora W., and Charles, Vera K., Bull. 175. U. S. Dept. Agric, pi. xix. 

 Apr. 29, 1915.) 



Amanita miiscaria. The Fly Amanita (Very Poisonous) 



Cap globose, convex, and at length flattened, at maturity margin sometimes 

 slightly striate; flesh white, sometimes yellow under the pellicle; remnants of the 



