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* Letter to the Editor regarding:
Mohammad Sarwar and John L. McDonald. A Rapid Extraction and Sir: While perusing the second issue of the Journal I noted an error in terminology in the article entitled: "A Rapid Extraction and GC/MS Methodology for the Identification of Psilocyn in Mushroom/Chocolate Concoctions" by Mohammad Sarwar and McDonald. The authors twice refer to the taxonomic categories of strophariaceae, bolbitiaceae, coprinaceae, and cortinariaceae as the four "species" of fungi which contain psilocyn and psilocybin. These categories are not species; they are families, as indicated by the suffix -"aceae". Each of these four families contains several genera, and each genus contains multiple species. The family cortinariaceae, for example, contains at least eight genera and well over a thousand different species. This is a small criticism in an otherwise excellent paper, and I congratulate the authors for their work. Robert Parsons
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