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It is said that some of the people of northern Asia make an 

 intoxicating liquor of this fungus by steeping it in water. 



Forms of this species occasionally occur which are wholly 

 white or whitish. They are referable to Variety alba. 



Amanita Frostiana, Frost's amanita, is found in more dense 

 woods. It might easily be taken for a very small form of the 

 Fly amanita. Its cap is only one or two inches broad, its gills 

 and stem are of ten yellow, its collar is slight and of ten evanescent 

 and the base of the stem is not scaly, the bulb being slightly 

 margined by the remains of the wrapper. 



Amanita verna Bull. 

 Yernal Amanita. 



Plate 41. Figs. 4 to 7. 



Pileus glabrous, even on the margin, white, viscid when moist ; 

 lamellae white ; stem annulate, white, floccose, stuffed or hollow, 

 closely sheathed at the base by the remains of the membranous 

 volva, bulbous ; spores globose, .0003 inch broad. 



The Yernal amanita scarcely differs from white forms of the 

 Poison amanita except in the more persistent and more closely 

 sheathing remains of the wrapper at the base of the stem. It is 

 probably only a variety of that species, as most mycologists now 

 regard it, and it should be considered quitcas dangerous. I have 

 not found it earlier than in July, although in Europe it is said to 

 appear in spring, as its name implies. 



Amanita phalloides Fr. 



Poison Amanita. 



Plates 40 and 41. Figs 1 to 3. 



Pileus glabrous, even on the margin, white, greenish or brown ; 

 lamellae white ; stem annulate, abruptly bulbous at the base, the 

 bulb slightly and loosely margined above by the remains of the 

 volva ; spores globose, white, .0003 in. broad. 



The Poison amanita is very variable in the color of the cap, 

 and yet is so definite in its structural characters that only the 

 most careless observer would be likely to confuse it with any 

 other species. There is, however, a sort of deceptive character 

 about it. It is very neat and attractive in its appearance and 

 "looks as if it might be good enough to eat." This appearance 

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