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BULLETIN 175, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



POISONOUS OR SUSPECTED MUSHROOMS. 



The following species 



Amanita chlorinosma. 

 Amanita cothurnata. 

 Amanita junquillea. 

 Amanita muscaria. 

 Amanita pantherina. 

 Amanita phalloides. 

 Amanita porphyria. 

 Amanita radicata. 

 Amanita solitaria. 

 Amanita spreta. 

 Amanita strobiliformis. 

 Amanita virosa. 

 Amanitopsis volvata. 

 Boletus erythropus. 

 Boletus felleus. 

 Boletus luridus. 

 Boletus miniato-olivaceua 



var. sen sib ilis. 

 Boletus satanus. 

 Calvatia cyathiformis. 

 Cantharellus aurantiacus. 

 Clathrus columnatus. 

 Clavaria aurea. 

 Clitocybe geotropa. 

 Clitocybe illudens. 



are poisonous or suspected of being poisonous 



Cortinarius purpurascens. 

 Elaphomyces granulatus. 

 Entoloma grande. 

 Entoloma lividum. 

 Entoloma sinuatum. 

 Entoloma speculum. 

 Geaster hygrometricus. 

 Gyromitra esculenta. 

 Hebeloma crustuliniforme. 

 Hebeloma fastibile. 

 Helvella esculenta. 

 Hypholoma fasciculare. 

 Hygrophorus conicus. 

 Inocybe infelix. 

 Inocybe infida. 

 Ithyphallus impudicus. 

 Lactarius fuliginosus. 

 Lac tar ius piperatus. 

 Lactarius pyrogalus. 

 Lactarius rufus. 

 Lactarius theiogalus. 

 Lactarius torminosus. 

 Lactarius villereus. 

 Lactarius zonarius. 

 Lepiota dolichaula. 



GLOSSARY. 



Lepiota morgani. 

 Marasmius peronatus. 

 Marasmius urens. 

 Mitrula paludosa. » 

 Panaeolus campanulatus. 

 Panus papilionaceus. 

 Panus stypticus. 

 Pholiota autumualis. 

 Pleui'otus olearius. 

 Psilocybe foenisecii. 

 Russula emetic a. 

 Russula foetens. 

 Russula fragilis. 

 Russula nigricans. 

 Russula nitida. 

 Russula queletii. 

 Scleroderma bovista. 

 Stropharia aeruginosa. 

 Stropharia semiglobata. 

 Tricholoma sulphureum . 

 Triclioloma tigrinum. 

 Tricholoma venenatum. 

 Vol var ia gloiocephala. 



Ad'nate, closely attached, as gills to 



stipe. 

 Adnexed / , gills reaching the stem but 



not adnate to it. 

 Anas'tomosing, united by running to- 

 gether irregularly, as of gills or veins 



with each other. 

 An'nulate, having a ring. 

 An/nulus, the ring on the stem of a 



mushroom formed by the separation of 



the veil from the margin of the cap. 

 A'pex, in mushrooms, the extremity of 



the stem nearest the gills. 

 Apical, relating to the apex or top. 

 Appendic / ulate, having an appendage 



hanging in small fragments. 

 Arach/noid, cobweblike. 

 Are / olate, divided into little areas or 



patches. 

 Ascend / ing, rising somewhat obliquely 



upward or curving. 

 As / ci, plural of ascus. 

 Ascomyce'tes, group of fungi in which 



the spores are produced in saclike cells 



called asci. 



As / cus, microscopic sacklike cell in 

 which spores, generally eight, are de- 

 veloped. 



At'omate, sprinkled with minute par- 

 ticles. 



Attentate, becoming gradually nar- 

 rowed or smaller. 



Axis, the central line of growth, stipe, 

 stalk, etc. 



Azo / nate, without zones or circular 

 bands of different color. 



Basidlum, an enlarged cell upon which 

 spores are borne. 



Basid / iomyce / tes, a group of fungi 

 which has its spores produced upon 

 basidia. 



Bifurcated, divided into two forks or 

 branches . 



BuTbous, applied to stem of a mush- 

 room with bulblike swelling at the base. 



Camp adulate, bell shaped. 



Car'nose, fleshy. 



Cartilaginous, gristly, firm, and tough. 



Centimeter (cm.) the hundredth part 

 of a meter, equal to 0.3937 of an inch. 



