Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9799
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Sandy stilt puffball (Battarrea phalloides)
Date
1784
Creator
Frederick Polydore Nodder (1710 - 1804, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 351mm
width (painting): 228mm
width (painting): 228mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 16 for the paper “An account of a new plant, of the order of fungus”, by Thomas Woodward, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.74 part 2 (1784), pp.423-427. Elevation view of the fungus showing its mode of growth above and below ground with associated details of brambles. Signed lower left: “F.P.Nodder –“.
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