Water color illustration of 5 white mushrooms with tan/beige caps at various stages of growth.

Agaricus strobiliformis, Late 1800s

Accession Number: NYSM i-513


 


 

Mary Banning writes the following text in an elegant, handwritten cursive style underneath her illustration:

Plate 9 

Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati  
Agaricus strobiliformis Vitt.  

Name—from strobilus, a pine cone  
Series Leucospori Subgenus Amanita