Mycology Gallery

Coral fungus varieties

White coral fungus, Clavulina cristata (Clavaria cristata), Clavulina cinerea (Clavaria cinerea), pink-tipped coral mushroom, Ramaria botrytis (Clavaria botrytis), and wrinkled coral fungus, Clavulina rugosa (Clavaria rugosa). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Champignons, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. Date:

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Lattice fungus, Clathrus cancellatus

Lattice fungus, Clathrus cancellatus.. Lattice fungus, Clathrus cancellatus. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke, London 1862. Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist who worked at the India Museum and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew

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Fossils of extinct marine creatures

Fossil of extinct demosponge Verticillites 1, Rubula soldanii 2, and Nubecularia lucifuga 3. Verticillite crecateo d'Ellis, Rubula del Soldani, Nubecularia lucifuga. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Corsi, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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