Word: amanita
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...season officially started on Friday," said Amanita L. Hyldahl, clerk at Chameleon gift and clothing store in the Garage. "All of a sudden, business tripled...
...assortment of Hoagland's Times editorials. Uniformly great, they are lyrical reminders of the virtues of juneberries, and if not specifically of juneberries, then of the virtue of noticing the smaller prosaic things and events which often go unnoticed. Whether reading about "poisonous and nonpoisonous varieties of the genus Amanita" mushrooms, or the skin in sheddings of garter snakes, one is thrilled. The sobering comes shortly after, when one remembers the criminally foolish president and his similarly foolish and greedy followers who strive to make the water, as and ground unlivable for mushrooms, garter snakes and people
...natural substances are more lethal than the toxin of the poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides. Commonly known as the death cap, it causes, after a day's delay, severe abdominal pain, followed by diarrhea, cramps and vomiting and finally liver failure and central nervous damage. In Europe, where mushroom collecting has long been a favorite hobby of gourmets, the hard-to-identify Amanita phalloides accounts for perhaps 95% of the dozens of deaths that occur every year from mushroom poisoning of some kind. Until recently the death cap was considered relatively rare in North America, and only a few cases...
...Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...
...object of all this learned scorn was The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which argues that Jesus was not a man but a hallucinogenic mushroom, Amanita muscaria; that the New Testament was concocted by addicts of the mushroom as a code for their mystical lore; and that the God of Jews and Christians is ultimately nothing more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University...