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Mycologia 



By the next afternoon, October 20, the flow of urine became 

 normal or nearly so, but the scantiness of saliva persisted a day 

 longer. 



My sense of taste, I have not yet fully regained at this date, 

 October 22, the fourth day after the mushrooms were eaten. 

 There was no after effect of stupor or coma with slowing up of 

 the heart beat. 



On October 20, specimens of the mushroom were submitted to 

 Miss Vera K. Charles, who very kindly identified it for me. Miss 

 Charles also cited me to Murrill's note on this species as follows : 



Clitocybe sudorifica Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 157 : 67. 1912. 



First described as a variety of C. dealbata from specimens collected in 

 grassy ground at Saratoga, New York, by F. G. Howland. It has been col- 

 lected in two or three other localities in Albany and Ontario counties. Mr. 

 ' Howland, Dr. Peck, and Dr. W. W. Ford all agreed that this mushroom was 

 decidely sudorific and unwholesome, differing decidedly in this respect from 

 the reputation enjoyed by C. dealbata. I have examined the types, however, 

 and can see no morphologic difference between the two plants. They both 

 grow gregariously in exposed grassy places and the best observer could not 

 tell them apart. — Murrill, W. A. In Mycologia 7: 274-275. 1915. 



Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Washington, D. C. 



