Water color illustration of 3 orange/sage-colored mushrooms in various stages of growth. Their bases are cream-colored with brown ridges throughout with a solid brown base and white sheath covering the stem top. The cap is orange/brown with beige spots.

Agaricus rubescens Fr., 1870

Accession Number: 
NYSM i-503

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

Plate 2 

Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati  

Agaricus rubescens Fr.  

Name—from rubesco, to become red  

Series Leucospori Subgenus Amanita  

Eastern Maryland, August 1870.  

Edible. 

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