I8,s(;. ] 
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self. In siicli a ('ase tlie patient lias all of the symptoms of having eaten 
of the mushrooms, even to a peculiar le<tden or at^h-colored complection.'' 
The possession of specimes of the toadstools eaten, the identilication 
of an Amanita among them or not. as the ease may be, the lengtli of 
time elapsing between the eating and manifestations of the poison, will 
inform the physician as to whether or not Amanitine is at work and 
whether it must be met by atropine, or the case treated for a less vir¬ 
ulent poison by milder remedies. 
NOTES ON FEOKIDA FIJNOT—No. 2 . 
V.Y W. vr. CALKINS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
The numerous and richly-developed species of Fnlypori naturally at¬ 
tract the explorer’s tirst attention in a Florida forest. In a hard-wood 
hammock, near Jacksonville, a large oak {Quercus laurifoUa] may be seen 
in a half-decayed state. On the trunk, occupying a space twenty feet 
long and one foot wide, appears Polyporus gilvus, Fr. This is the largest 
specimen I have ever heard of. On the Pipe wood ( Leucolhoe acuminata ] 
also on the Magnolia and JJlnius, the living bark is made brilliant by 
those peculiar rosette-like forms— Wypochnus alhocmctus, Mont., and H\ 
ruhrocinctuH, Ehrli. 
The Lichenologists claim tliese species also, but they are very inter¬ 
esting, all the same. These are found in perfect fruit here during the 
winter months, when it is cool and there are frequent rains. The sum¬ 
mers are long, dry and very hot, therefore not many fungous forms attain 
their full maturity. To see a whole forest of magnificent trees and 
shrubs, many of them strictly Southern plants, adorned with extraneous 
life of lower vegetable orders, lends variety and charm not to be found 
elsewhere, unless it be in a tropical jungle. 
NEW LITERATURE. 
llEFUTATION DE L’OFINIO.N DU DR. O. EUGEL TOUCHANT LES (^HALI¬ 
TES uoMESTiHLES DE l'Amanita muscaria, Fr.’’ Cap. F. Sar- 
razin. Revue Mycologique, ler Janvier. 1886. 
Fungi Calliui exsicijati. — Cknturie XXXVIe. ” C. lioume- 
guere. 1. c. 
•• ClIAMFIGNONS NOUVEAUX OU RARES DE l’AUB 
le Major Briard. 1. c. 
('HAMPIGNONS DU Bearn (2e listei.’’ Par M.M. 
Patouillard. 1. c. _ 
— Fasc. ri.” Par 
E. Doassans et N. 
MYCOTHECA UNIVERSALIS. 
A set. consisting of 2H cents, of this valuable collection is ottered for 
sale by Baron F. de Tlmemen. St. Micluel. a’ Etsch . Austria, at the low 
ju-jee of S.'iO.OU. 
