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RESEARCHES ON FUNGI 



University of Manitoba. Upon arrival there at 4.50 a.m. Jupiter 

 still hung aloft the western sky, while Aurora, the rosy-fingered, 



Fia. 165. — Clitocybe illiidens, known as Jack -my -Lantern, a rich saffron -yellow agaric 

 occurring throughout the eastern United States and in eastern Canada in large 

 clusters about dying trunks and stumps of deciduous trees. At night its gills 

 are strongly luminescent. It has a muscarin reaction on the nerves of the heart 

 and causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea, f the natural size, often much 

 larger. From the late G. F. Atkinson's Mushrooms, Edible and Poisonous, etc. 

 By courtesy of Henry Holt and Co. 



was approaching in the east. Upon going into the dark-room my 

 well-rested eyes at once perceived the full glow of the fungus lamps ; 

 and, even when the dark-room door was opened so as to admit the 

 entry of a certain amount of twilight, the bioluminescence was still 

 distinguishable. 



