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unless one is practiced enough to know how to administer a 

 medicament with a hypodermic syringe. A physician would use 

 morphine sulphate gr. i-6 to control convulsions and pain, he 

 would give hypodermics of digitalis and alcohol and camphor to 

 stimulate the heart. He would inject under the skin of the abdo- 

 men or the thigh about 500 cc. (i pint) of a normal salt solution 

 to replace the water drained from the body by the vomiting and 

 purging and lastly he would use one or two hypodermics of atro- 

 pine sulphate gr. i-ioo. This remedy, atropine sulphate, is said 

 to be a specific antidote to every poison except the fatal poison 

 amanitin (Ford). The atropine sulphate is most useful for the 

 symptoms which occur in the late stages of the poisoning. It 

 checks secretion from the skin and gastro-intestinal tract. It 

 therefore stops the exhaustive diarrhoea and it stimulates the 

 brain and keeps the respiration and the heart going until the 

 patient can neutralize or eliminate the poison. 



The researches of Ford would indicate that atropine sulphate 

 is a true specific against all mushroom poisons except amanitin 

 (Ford). Every amateur who expects to collect and eat his mush- 

 rooms should learn from his physician how to administer hypo- 

 dermic medication and should carry along with his botanical 

 books and his bottle of vinegar, a hypodermic syringe and a few 

 precious tablets of atropine sulphate. 



THE GENUS ANAMOMIS IN FLORIDA 



By John K. Small. 



In the spring of 1904, Mr. P. Wilson and the writer collected 

 specimens of twigs of a species of Anamomis from an old stump 

 at a lately abandoned surveyor's camp on Long Key in the 

 Everglades. In the winter of 1909, Mr. J. J. Carter and the 

 writer collected similar twigs from stumps in the hammock on the 

 eastern end of Long Key. About the same time we found some 

 rather poor flowering specimens of the same kind of tree in the 

 hammock of the small key which lies west of the southern part 

 of Royal Palm Hammock. 



