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Portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt
Douglas Chandor’s portrait conveys the restless energy and multifaceted personality of the subject. A full-color rendering of Eleanor engages the viewer with her direct, powerful gaze as her hand lightly peels back a page from an open book. Below,…
Cortinarius
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.…
Collybia albissima
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…
Collybia adirondakensis [?]
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 /…
Omphalina epichysium
1. Pileus fleshy, thin, umbilicate, light greyish / tan, margin very thin involute striatulate brownish [sic] / minutely squamulose, hygrophorous- [sic] / 2. Lamellae light grey, decurrant, [sic] distant / inserted / 3. Spores white / 4. Stipe…
Gymnopus flavidellus [sic] Murrill
1. Pileus glabrous, dry, subumbonate- / convex to expanded + margin upturned / with age- / 2. Lamella lightish yellow, becoming / dark ferugenous, [sic] narrow, close, / sinuate adnate, inserted. / 3. Spores, rusty brown / 4. Stipe slender paler than…
Cantharellus flaviceps Peck Camarophyllus cantharellus
1. Pileus smooth, if viscid very slightly so, / shiny depressed in center (umbilicate [sic]) rich / orange becoming brownish in drying- / 2. Lamellae white becoming yellowish, / distant rather wide + thick, heterophyllous / adnate or slightly…
Hebeloma or Inocybe pyriodorous?
Growing in leaf mold in light woods- / July 11- 1900- Litchfield Conn- / 1. Taste- nutty, sweet. / 2. Surface of Pileus, Smooth, dry- firm. / slightly shiny- pealing- [sic] / 3. Lamellae- Heterophyllous- free- close- / fairly wide- a beautiful…
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Tracing of a 1747 Map of Barent Van Benthuysen land
A tracing of a 1747 Map showing the land holdings of Barent Van Benthuysen