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Michel Étienne Descourtilz
French physician, botanist and historiographer of the Haitian revolution (1775-1835)
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Botany
Botany
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Images by Michel Étienne Descourtilz
4 images from works
Works from the collections
7 works
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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.
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Date: [1827]
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Reference: 20595i
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Fungi: 16 species, including Jew's ear (Auricularia auricula), puffballs (Lycoperdon) and Agaricus and Boletus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, ca. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.
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Date: [1827]
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Reference: 20596i
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Poisonous fungi: 24 species, including Agaricus, Hypophyllum and Amanita species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.
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Date: [1827]
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Reference: 20601i
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Guide sanitaire des voyageurs aux colonies, ou conseils hygiéniques en faveur des Européens destinés à passer aux Îles; suivis d'une liste des médicaments dont on doit munir la pharmacie domestique à établir sur chaque habitation / [M.E. Descourtilz].
Descourtilz, M. E. (Michel Etienne), 1775-1835
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Date: 1816
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Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.
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Date: [1827]
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Reference: 20597i
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Prieur, active 1820-1830.
Cornillon, A., active 1827.
Related topics
Fungi
Amanita
Amanitaceae
Mushrooms
Mycology
Agaricus
Agaricaceae
Boletus
Boletaceae
Edible fungi
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