Water color illustration of three mushrooms in various stages of growth; two are sprouting from a brown/cream bulbous base, the stems are white and the small caps are greenish/yellow with a webbing pattern at the top, and white fringe at the bottom.

Phallus daemonum, Late 1800s

Accession Number: NYSM i-659


 


 

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

Plate 141

Order Gasteromycetes Sub-order Phalloidei.   Phallus daemonum Rumph.   Name—daemon, a daemon or spirit, an angel good or bad a guardian angel