Water color illustration of 2 bright orange/red mushrooms with a symmetrical caps

Hypomyces lactifluorum, Late 1800s

Accession Number: 
NYSM i-670

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

Plate 152 

Order Elvellacei Sub-order Sphaeriacei  
Hypomyces lactifluorum Schw. 
Section Nectriei 

Species Characters. H. lactifluorum. “Parasitic, thin, effused, cinnabar colored, ostiola bright red, perithecia white stuffed.” Spores 0.0012–0.0015 long 0.00030–0.00032 broad. The above description is copied from Schweinitz’s “Synopsis of the Fungi of Carolina.” Grows on Agarics. Parasitic. June. July–August. Found near Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland.  

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