Fly Mushroom.Fig. 13.
(Agaricus[Amanita]muscarius.)3.
Few fungi can exceed this well-known species in beauty. It is somewhat local, and loves birch woods, where it sometimes makes the very ground almost scarlet with its profuse growth. Sometimes the top is deep yellow or orange, but it is usually brilliant scarlet; if the top skin is stripped off, the flesh just beneath is seen to be bright yellow, and the rest of the flesh white. It is allied tofig. 1, Edible Sheet, but the flesh of the latter is not yellow under the skin; andA. rubescens turns reddishin every part as soon as bruised or broken.