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rather exhaustive chemico-toxicological examinations. Amanita 

 p anther in oides Murrill, a related species, " was eaten by two 

 persons with almost fatal results." 6 



With several European forms, a Japanese form, with our own 

 more or less closely allied species {A. cothnrnata Atk., A. vela- 

 tipes Atk., and A. panther in oides Murrill), and with the um- 

 brinons form of A, muse aria entering into the complex all too 

 frequently called " A. pantherina," it would appear that results, 

 in a toxicological examination of this " species," are likely to 

 prove inconclusive unless considerable systematic acumen is per- 

 mitted to supervene. 



L. C. C. Krieger 



iscben Pantherschwammes. Mittheil. ,aus der Medic. Fac. der Kaiserl. Jap. 

 Univ., Tokio, Bd. I, No. 3, pp. 277-306. 1889; and No. 4, pp. 3 1 3—33 1 - 1890. 



5 Boehm, R., Beitraege zur Kenntni9 der Hutpilze in Chemischer und toxi- 

 cologischer Beziehung .... II. Amanita pantherina. Archiv fuer exper. 

 Pathol, u. Pharmac. v. Naunyn u. Schmeideberg, XIX. 1885, p. 60 ; see also Be- 

 richte d. Deutsch. Chem. Gesell., XIX. 1886. Refer, p. 34. 



6 Murri M ( W. A., in Mycologia 10 : 289. Nov., 1918. 



