Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9884
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Specimens of Pleurotus [Oyster mushrooms]
Date
1867
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Abraham Lundquist & Company , Lithographers
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40294
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height (print): 377mm
width (print): 270mm
width (print): 270mm
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Description
Mycological studies of four varieties of oyster or tree mushrooms including habitats on logs and branches. Figures 1-4 showing multiple views of each fungus. Plate 88 from the book Icones selectae hymonomycetum nondum delineatorum, by Elias Fries (Stockholm, 1867). .” Inscribed above: “Fries Icon.Hymenom. 88.” Inscribed below: “1. AGARICUS (PLEUROTUS) CIRCINATUS FR. 2. AGARICUS (PLEUROTUS) PANTOLEUCUS FR. 3. AGARICUS (PLEUROTUS) LIMPIDES FR. 4. AGARICUS (PLEUROTUS) MUTULUS FR. E. Fries direx. E. Pettersson et P.Akerlund del.Lith. o.tr.h. Schlachter & Seedorff, Stockh..”
Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875.
Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875.
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