. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 21 Korak, who has long used the plant as an intoxicant, can eat ten specimens and merely become drunk does not prove that a similar number would not be fatal to an American who had never eaten it before. THE DEATH CUP (POISONOUS). Amanita plialloides (Pers.) Fr. Figs. 25 and 26 show one of the smaller forms of the death cup. The stem is set in a sort of white cup, the upper portion of which surrounds the base of the stem like a collar. This species resembles. Fig. 35.—Death cup, Amanita phalloides. Poisonous. Two
. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 21 Korak, who has long used the plant as an intoxicant, can eat ten specimens and merely become drunk does not prove that a similar number would not be fatal to an American who had never eaten it before. THE DEATH CUP (POISONOUS). Amanita plialloides (Pers.) Fr. Figs. 25 and 26 show one of the smaller forms of the death cup. The stem is set in a sort of white cup, the upper portion of which surrounds the base of the stem like a collar. This species resembles. Fig. 35.—Death cup, Amanita phalloides. Poisonous. Two-tliirds natural size. muscaria in its broad ring and in the white color of its stem, gills, and spores. The upper surface of the cap, however, is usually smooth and without corky particles, glossy, viscid, and of a white or slightly greenish, sometimes even yellow, color. Occasionally a few small and irregular patches are found on the top of the cap, as in fig. 27, consisting of fragments of the upper portion of the cup which became attached to the top of the mushroom when it was very young and just pushing itself out of the ground. The presence of. 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 Coville, Frederick V. (Frederick Vernon), 1867-1937; United States. Divison of Botany; United States. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Botany
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