. Elementary botany . Fig. 442. Amanita phalloides : plant turned to one side, after having been placed in a horizontal position, by the directive force of gravity. common mushroom. Great care should be exercised in collect- ing and noting the characters of these plants, for a very deadly poisonous species, the deadly amanita (Amanita phalloides) is perfectly white, has white spores, a ring, and grows usually in wooded places, but also sometimes occurs in the margins of lawns. In this plant the base of the stem is seated in a cup-shaped struc- ture, the volva, shown in fig. 441. One should dig
. Elementary botany . Fig. 442. Amanita phalloides : plant turned to one side, after having been placed in a horizontal position, by the directive force of gravity. common mushroom. Great care should be exercised in collect- ing and noting the characters of these plants, for a very deadly poisonous species, the deadly amanita (Amanita phalloides) is perfectly white, has white spores, a ring, and grows usually in wooded places, but also sometimes occurs in the margins of lawns. In this plant the base of the stem is seated in a cup-shaped struc- ture, the volva, shown in fig. 441. One should dig up the stem carefully so as not to tear off this volva if it is present, for with the absence of this structure the plant might easily be mistaken for the lepiota, and serious consequences would result,
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