Milk cap mushroom
Date
1868
Creator
Worthington George Smith (1835 - 1917, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp244-245
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 138mm
width (print): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Mycological studies of Lactarius controversus, a mushroom of the milk cap family. Four figures, including a section and a magnified detail of the spores.
Plate at pp.244/245 of the paper ‘New and rare Herefordshire and British Hymenomycetous fungi’, by Worthington G. Smith, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.245-246.
The accompanying text states that: ‘This noble addition to our cryptogrammic flora was found by Dr. M’Cullough at and near Abergavenny, and by the Rev. E. Du Buisson, at Breinton, and taken by Dr. Bull to the Exhibition of Fungi at the Royal Horticultural Society last October…the specimen selected for illustration was one of the smallest, in order to get it into the plate.’
Inscribed below: ‘W.G.Smith, del et lith. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp. Lacterius controversus. Pers.’
Worthington George Smith (1835-1917) British mycologist and illustrator, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
Plate at pp.244/245 of the paper ‘New and rare Herefordshire and British Hymenomycetous fungi’, by Worthington G. Smith, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869) pp.245-246.
The accompanying text states that: ‘This noble addition to our cryptogrammic flora was found by Dr. M’Cullough at and near Abergavenny, and by the Rev. E. Du Buisson, at Breinton, and taken by Dr. Bull to the Exhibition of Fungi at the Royal Horticultural Society last October…the specimen selected for illustration was one of the smallest, in order to get it into the plate.’
Inscribed below: ‘W.G.Smith, del et lith. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp. Lacterius controversus. Pers.’
Worthington George Smith (1835-1917) British mycologist and illustrator, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
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