. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 2K. Fig. 205 Fig. 205.—Death-cup {Amanita phalloides, Gill-mushroom Family, Agari- cacecB). Mushroom growing 7-20 cm. tall; cap white, straw-color, greenish, light brown, or yellow, uniformly or more or less spotted; smooth and satiny, convex at first, finally becoming concave; stalk white, and nearly smooth, bearing generally at the more or less swollen base a conspicuous cup-like envelope which may lie partly under ground, and near the cap a drooping ring or "frill"; gills white. (
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 2K. Fig. 205 Fig. 205.—Death-cup {Amanita phalloides, Gill-mushroom Family, Agari- cacecB). Mushroom growing 7-20 cm. tall; cap white, straw-color, greenish, light brown, or yellow, uniformly or more or less spotted; smooth and satiny, convex at first, finally becoming concave; stalk white, and nearly smooth, bearing generally at the more or less swollen base a conspicuous cup-like envelope which may lie partly under ground, and near the cap a drooping ring or "frill"; gills white. (Ches- nut.)—Native home, Europe and North America, mostly in woods. The most poisonous and one of most conmion of mushrooms, dangerous even to handle. Fig. 206.—Fly-amanita {Amanita- masraria, Gill-mushroom Family, Agaricacca;). Mushroom growing about 10-14 cm. tall, highly at- tractive in appearance, smell, and taste; cap strongly convex at first, becoming flat or concave, white, yellow, orange to bright red, com- monly deeper-colored toward the center, sticky when moist, always bearing warts of a mostly paler color; stalk bulbous at the base, with- out a conspicuous cup but Ix-aring around it flexible shaving-like projections pointing upward, and near the cap a frill-like ring; gills white. (Ohesiiut.)—Native homo, Eurasia, .South Africa, North America; mostly in wooijs. .Scarcely' less poisonous than the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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