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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…

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,…

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…

Signed engraving of Col. Andrew DeVeaux

1. Pileus moist (hygrophorous). 86. / smooth but somewhat / reticulately veined on the margin. / deeply infundibuliform, some / what irregular, very thin / light tanish pink darker / in the center flesh white / 2. Gills white, very narrow /…

These specimens much resemble no 145- but 177- / the flesh does not change color- thin this [sic] unpleasant [sic] taste, + / the texture of the stipe is different / 1. Pileus, dry smooth, firm convex to / expanded- pruinose margin very thin / the…