Agaricus vernus, Late 1800s

Water color illustration of 2 white mushrooms bursting forth from a brown bulbous root base in various stages of growth.

Accession Number: YSM i-518

Plate 12

Agaricus vernus Bull.

Name—ver, spring

Series Leucospori Subgenus Amanita

Botanical Characters. A. vernus. Pileus white ovate expanded often depressed viscid in wet weather, margin regular; lamellae free, white, broad, ventricose; stipe stuffed then hollow; bulbous; closely sheathed with a volva which has a free lax border. “It does not seem to be distinguishable from A. phalloides and is probably also poisonous.” In woods June–October.

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

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