Water color illustration of two large floral-shaped mushrooms with cream colored-stems and deep yellowish-brown open caps with brown striations throughout. Small grasses and blue flowers decorate its base.

Polyporus beattiei, Late 1800s

Accession Number: NYSM i-632


 


 

Mary Banning writes the following text in an elegant, handwritten cursive style underneath her illustration: 

Plate 118 

Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati  

Polyporus beattiei Banning 

Section Merisma