Shaggy ink cap
Date
1868
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp200-201
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 138mm
width (print): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Mycological study of Caprinus comatus, commonly known as the shaggy ink cap or shaggy mane (here the Maned agaric).
Plate at pp.200/201 of the paper ‘Illustrations of the edible funguses of Herefordshire’, by H.G.Bull, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.196-203.
The accompanying text states that: ‘It is common throughout the summer and autumn months on road-sides, pastures and waste places. It is extremely variable in size: the illustration given is rather smaller than the average size.’
With the monogram of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club. Inscribed below: ‘Caprinus comatus. The Maned Agararic’.
Dr Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885) physician and naturalist, founder of the British Mycological Society.
Plate at pp.200/201 of the paper ‘Illustrations of the edible funguses of Herefordshire’, by H.G.Bull, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.196-203.
The accompanying text states that: ‘It is common throughout the summer and autumn months on road-sides, pastures and waste places. It is extremely variable in size: the illustration given is rather smaller than the average size.’
With the monogram of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club. Inscribed below: ‘Caprinus comatus. The Maned Agararic’.
Dr Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885) physician and naturalist, founder of the British Mycological Society.
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