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No. 13. Spore prints of common mushroom and smooth Lepiota. 
spores will show very distinctly and if the paper is first coated with 
a very thin layer of mucilage the spores will be held in place and 
the spore prints are thus made permanent. 
THE AMANITAS. 
The Agaricus family is the only one which contains the 
deadly poisonous species of fleshy fungi, the Amanitas. The Ama¬ 
nitas are umbrella-shaped mushrooms which in the early or button 
