latinized bayer designation
- Amanita muscaria (Wikipedia)
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is also a muscimol mushroom. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine and birch plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees.
- Alhena (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
ALHENA (Gamma Geminorum). A great many stars were named by the Arabs according to their positions within the Greek constellations. An equal number, however, have to do with their own culture, our star, Alhena, alluding to a “brand,” the “mark on the camel’s neck.”
