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Edible fungi

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  • A fungus (Pleurotus dryinus): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1896.
  • Shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig fungus (Coprinus comatus): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1894.
  • Blewit fungus (Lepista saeva): two fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1897.
  • A fungus (Pleurotus ulmarius): a group of fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1896.
  • The wood blewit fungus (Lepista nuda): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1898.
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    Blewit fungus (Lepista saeva): two fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1897.

    | Date: 1897 | Reference: 21384i
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    A morel (Morchella species): three fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

    Baker, R., active 1898. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 21646i
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    Wood hedgehog fungus (Hydnum repandum), pennywort plant (Hydrocotyle species) and a sac fungus (Hysterium sphaerioides). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1810.

    | Date: 31 March 1810 | Reference: 25544i
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    Edible fungi: 19 species, including horse and field mushrooms (Agaricus), morels (Morchella and Helvella) and Boletus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, ca. 1827, after Prieur.

    Prieur, active 1820-1830. | Date: [1827] | Reference: 20595i
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    Velvet shank fungus (Flammulina velutipes) growing on wood. Watercolour, 1893.

    | Date: 1893 | Reference: 21497i
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