Cortinarius

Delafield, Violetta White (botanist, mycologist, and garden designer, 1875-1949)

Culture: American

Botany; Mycology; Fungi; Mushrooms

Growing in marshy ground under swamp maples- / 1. Taste sweet nutty. / 2. Surface of Pileus, dry, smooth, umbonate / shiny tomentous, pealing, a reddish brown / tinged with lavender / 3. Lamellae- a rich russet brown not changing / color. heterophyllous wide rather close decurrent / sinuate forming slight reticulations at top of / stem / 4. Spores Rusty brown- round- oval, small. / 5. Stem, Fleshy, stuffed, whitish, veined with delicate brown lines, bulbous- / 6. Veil evanescent, having no traces except / slight [sic] / Cortinarius ?- / Aug 30- 1900. Litchfield Conn-

Litchfield, CT

Repository: Bard College, Montgomery Place

August 30, 1900

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Gift of J. Dennis Delafield

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Paper (laid), pencil, watercolor

9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.86 x 29.21 cm)

Botanical drawing

Image Number: MP.2005.600