Water color illustration of two mushrooms. The underside of the cap and stem are a beige color, and a bisection shows the stems white interior and a dark brown cap

Hydnum imbricatum, Late 1800s

Accession Number: 
NYSM i-652

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

Plate 136 

Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati  

Hydnum imbricatum L.  

Name—imbrex, a tile  

Found at Hall’s Spring, Baltimore County, August 1875. I have never met with it since in any of the localities I have visited. Spores globose, tuberculated, brownish,0.00025 × 0.0002 inch. 

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