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Omphalia or Hygrophorous
Growing in leaf mold in light woods- / gregarious / 1. Taste watery. / 2. Surface of Pileus, viscid smooth dull- / ranging from a light yellow to a deep orange / brown. / 3. Lamellae- Pure white, Heterophyllous, wide. / rather far apart, decurrent- /…
Boletus curtisii
Growing in moist woods, among / Cinamon [sic] ferns. & under swamp maples- / Taste, gluy [sic] sweet. / Surface of Pileus very viscid, sticky- / convex golden yellow turning dark / brown with age- / turning tawny- / Pore surface- light straw color ^…
Clitocybe virens
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,…
Hypholoma
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
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…
Russula corallina
Watercolor drawing of two differing size fungi in shades of red and pink, pencil inscription on right side of paper; Larger fungus is approximately 3. 5 inches from root to top of cap; cap is approximately 5 inches wide at largest point; pink cap is…
Agaricus placomyces
Watercolor drawing of paper of 2 large white and purple fungi, one convex the other flat, with inscription in pencil on right side of paper: mushroom on the right is approximately 5 inches tall from cap to root; cap is approximately 3.25 inches at…
Russula
Watercolor drawing on paper of a single fungus in shades of rose, beige, and off-white, accompanied to the right, by column of text in pencil: specimen measures 2 1/4 inches in height and 2 5/8 inches across cap; wide, rosy cap is somewhat flattened,…
Pholiota
Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of gold, yellow, and brown, accompanied by column of text, in pencil, to right of page: the larger specimen to the right measures 4 1/2 inches in height, including the "log" on which it is anchored,…
Single mushroom, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1. Pileus convex, then expanded somewhat / depressed- margin then becoming striate, / pelicle, pealing, viscid- glabrous, a beautiful / light pink, context white tardily acrid + / strong / 2. Lamellae White, all even, rather close- / adnate, some…
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Henry Elting's rye fields grain in shock
Stacks (shocks) of rye are standing in a farm field near Pitcher Lane in Upper Red Hook, circa 1905.