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

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Mary Banning: Fungi of Maryland