Excerpt from Student's Hand-Book of Mushrooms of America: Edible and Poisonous Fig. 5. Ring persistent, movable, wholly detached, in age, from the tall and slender stem, upon which it easily slips up and down. A species of great beauty, Lepiota procera. Fig. 6. Ring narrow, scarcely perceptible above the middle of the stem remnants of the veil adhering to the margin of the cap as a fugacious web. Fig. 7. Ring generally wanting Tricholoma nudum. Remnants of the veil seen on the margin of the cap. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.