Browse Items (31 total)

  • Collection: Mushroom Drawings of Violetta Delafield

Clitocybe virens

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Watercolor drawing on paper of a single fungus, on left side of paper: drawing measures three inches in height; cap measures 3 1/8 inches at widest point; the wide, gently floppy cap is executed in shades of acqua; the gill area in pale cream with…

Clitocybe virens

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85 / 1. Pileus smooth, dry, silvery [sic] green- somewhat / uneven + fibrillous firm, becoming dry + shriveled / 2. Gills close, narrow, white heterophyllous, slightly / decurrent turning dingy yellowish white with age. / 3. Spores white / 4. Stem,…

Clitopilus prunulus

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Growing in light shaded roadside banks- / Aug 22- 1900. Litchfield Conn. / 1. Taste sweet nutty. smell strong- / 2. Surface of Pileus, smooth dry. rather satiny to the touch. / 3. Lamellae- narrow, close, heterophyllous, / decurrent, white turning…

Entoloma giganteum

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1. Taste pleasant, then / disagreeable, long persistent / 2. Pileus somewhat viscid / moist, even or slightly / scaly in center, fawny / yellowish white, very thick. / 3. Lamellae, white thin / flesh colored, then almost / yellow, very wide sinuate,…

Helvella elastica

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Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of smoky brown, grey, and white, accompanied by text, in pencil, to the right: specimen to the right measures 4 3/4 inches in height and has a lobed or saddle-shaped cap with inrolled margins; the…

Hygrophorus mugnalus

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Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of beige and white, accompanied by column of text, in pencil, on right side of page: specimen to right is 1 15/16 inches in height; the white convex cap has partially visible gills; the slender…

Hypholoma

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Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of reddish-brown accompanied by text in pencil, on right side of page, enumerating the taxonomy: the specimen on the right measures 3 1/2 inches in height and has a broad, somewhat flattened convex…

Hypholoma

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Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of reddish-brown accompanied by text in pencil, on right side of page, enumerating the taxonomy: the specimen on the right measures 3 1/2 inches in height and has a broad, somewhat flattened convex…

Laccaria ochropurpurea

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Watercolor drawing on paper of a single fungus in shades of pinkish-brown, lavender, and beige, accompanied by column of text, in pencil, to right of page: the fungus measures 4 5/8" in height and 3 1/8" across cap; convex cap appears highly textured…

Lactarius indigo

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1. Pileus, convex to expanded at / length depressed- margin even / somewhat wavy. / thin ^ very viscid when moist / light greyish blue, zoned with darker / blue- context & latex indigo blue- / 2. Spores ochraceous / 3 Lamellae, close, slightly…