Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11793

    Sepia pinkgill and Pink waxcap mushrooms

    Date
    1868
    Creator
    Worthington George Smith (1835 - 1917, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    Woolhope Transactions_1868_pp246-247
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 138mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > fungi
    Description
    Mycological studies of Entoloma jubatum (here Agaricus entoloma jubatus, Fr.) the Sepia pinkgill and Porpolomopsis calyptriformis (here Hygrophorus calyptraeformis) the Pink waxcap. Seven figures, including sections and magnified details of spores.

    Plate at pp.246/247 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 the Entoloma was ‘found…growing in great abundance on Merry-hill Common, and in and near Haywood Forest, near Hereford; it grew in dense clusters, some of them taking a circular form.’ The Porpolomopsis is described as a ‘distinct and beautiful species [that] occurred in abundance in Holm Lacey Park last autumn; where attention was drawn to it and the first specimens gathered by J. Griffith Morris Esq. It grew amongst furze and in open places bordering the plantations.’

    Inscribed below: ‘W.G.Smith, del et lith. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp. Figs. 1.2.3. Agaricus (Entoloma) jubatus Fr. Fig.4.5.6.7. Hygrophorus calyptraeformis. B. & Br.’

    Worthington George Smith (1835-1917) British mycologist and illustrator, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
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