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Iceman's Fungi
Scott Holmes (sholmes@NETCOM.COM)
Tue, 20 Dec 1994 07:40:52 -0800
Iceman's Fungi. I queried them as to it's efficacy as an antibiotic
or any known association with magic. Here is the response I received:
>From ddeshaz@cello.gina.calstate.edu Mon Dec 19 18:37:32 1994
>Date: Sunday - December 18, 1994 10:10 PM
>From: "Darvin A. DeShazer" <ddeshaz@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
>To: sholmes@netcom.com
>Subject: P. betulinus
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>The following references should give plenty of info on this odd polypore. I
>STRONGLY feel that the iceman was carrying it for tinder, to start fires.
>An older name for it was Polyporus betulinus.
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>1. Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 6:9, 1881.
>2. McIlvaine, C. 1902. One Thousand American Fungi.
>3. Breitenbach, J. and F. Kranzlin. 1986. Fungi of Switzerland Vol 2:
> Nongilled Fungi.
>4. Arora, D. 1986. Mushrooms Demystified. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA.
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>Darvin
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A rather prosaic use for the stuff given the current speculations.
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