NOTES ON FLORIDA FUNGI. 
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development, wonder why this is so. They frequent entirely Quercus 
aquatica —decaying or dead. Folyiiovus, licnoides, Mont., is an example of 
a tropical migration ; it is rare. F. earimis, JSlees., rare. P. niphodes, 
Jh «& Hr., prolific on dead limbs. J\ HaUeamis, Herk., rare. F. pleheius^ 
Berk., not abundant, but very fine and large. I have specimens over- 
seven inches a(*ross. Then there are others of this'genus which I omit 
now. Xeglecting for the present a number of genera, 1 will refer to the 
curious Glenospora Curtisii, J5erk., and the Thelepliora pedicellata^^chw. 
—both found on small Quercus aquatica and Myrica ceri/era, which in 
this locality seem to monopolize their attentions. Station low, wet, or 
damp grounds. Gvandenia tuherculala^ B. & C., occurs sparingly on rot¬ 
ten branches. The leaves of various trees and shrubs swarm with cer¬ 
tain species. And wdiether one looks above or below, he will not be 
disappointed. 
AMANITINE AKD ITS ANTIDOTE.* 
/ 
liY OHATUiES MACIEVAINE, OF PHILADELPHIA. 
The many cases of severe illness caused by toadstool eating, and the 
very general lack of knowledge as to the nature of the poisons producing 
them, as well as the proper treatment to be pursued, as designated 
by the peculiar symptons attaching to each poison of the several noxious 
varieties of toadstools, render it desirable that wdiat is thus far ascer¬ 
tained about them should be widely published and known to the pro¬ 
fession. 
No physician called upon to give relief in a case of toadstool poison¬ 
ing can do so intelligently, or be certain of success, unless he can 
distinguish, from a sample of the toadstool eaten, what particular poi¬ 
son is at work; or, from the symptoms, to which family of toadstools 
the illness is ascribable. With this knowledge in his possession, he 
holds the key to the situation, and, by its use, can stay the simple suffer¬ 
ing produced by particular toadstools, or preserve his patient from wiiat, 
without it, would be certain death, if any of the deadly kinds have been 
eaten. • 
ft is the duty of the mycologist to inform the physician how^ to dis¬ 
tinguish between those varieties of toadstools which create simply local 
troubles in the human system, and those whose poisonous principles are 
absorbed by it to its destruction. 
The toadstools likely to be eaten are, Agarics (those having gills, or 
plaits, under their caps), Polyporei and Boleti (having tubes and sponge¬ 
like surfaces beneath their caps), llydnei ( having spike-like projections 
* This article, a portion of which is here reproduced, was printed in the Medical 
and Siiiyical Reporter, Dec. liJth, ISS."). 
