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IT is very unfair that the mushroom amily should lie under a ban, because Locusta, at the instigation of Agrippina, employed some kind as a medium for conveying poison into the stomach of Claudius. With equal justice the mild Calenian wine would have been in ill repute because poison was not unfrequently mixed with it— Occurrit matrona potens, quæ molle Calenum Porrectura viro miscet sitiente rubetam.
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HOUGHTON, W. Fungi. Nature 3, 126–127 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003126f0
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