. Bulletin : report of Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Agriculture -- Alabama. 344 Caesar's Amanita {edible)! 1. Volva persistent at the base of the stem in the form of a cup. 2. Pileus bright orange or rarely paler yellowish, smooth. 3. Gills and stem pale yellow. 4. Gills free, i. e. separate from the stem. The Fly-agaric (poisonous)! 1. No cup ; base of stem mostly bulbous and scaly. 2. Pileus orange or yellow adorned with flocculent warts con- sisting of patches of the ruptured volva. 3. Gills and stem white, the gills rarely slightly yell
. Bulletin : report of Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Agriculture -- Alabama. 344 Caesar's Amanita {edible)! 1. Volva persistent at the base of the stem in the form of a cup. 2. Pileus bright orange or rarely paler yellowish, smooth. 3. Gills and stem pale yellow. 4. Gills free, i. e. separate from the stem. The Fly-agaric (poisonous)! 1. No cup ; base of stem mostly bulbous and scaly. 2. Pileus orange or yellow adorned with flocculent warts con- sisting of patches of the ruptured volva. 3. Gills and stem white, the gills rarely slightly yellow-tinted. 4. Gills attached to the stem and appearing to run down it in the form of slight ridges.*. Fig. 3. Amanita muscaria; Poisonous, showing scaly bulbous base without a cup, and the floccose volva appearing in patches on the pileus. Color of pileus pale yellow to reddish yellow. About X natural size. lu Figure 3 we give an illustration of the fly-agaric which resembles Caesar's Amanita slightly. It will be noted that the cup is not present at the base of the stem. This one character combined with the bright color of the fungus is the one character on which we must rely to determine the question of its edibility. If the cup is present the plant is safe; if it is absent the plant is poisonous. * A second smaller species {Amanita Frostiana) closely allied to the fly-agaric and doubtless often confused with it, differs by lacking this striate upper portion of the stem. It rarely has a pi- leus more than one or two inches in diameter while the fly-agaric is much larger. In other characters it is very much like 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 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station. Auburn, Ala. : The Station
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