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English: Amanita muscaria (L. ex Fr.) Hook. - Fly Agaric (= agaricus muscarius L. 1753). Sowerby produced "Coloured figures of English fungi" with 440 drawings and many models of fungi; the models were made expressly to aid identification of the edible and poisonous species, and some are still preserved to this day in the Natural History Museum. |
| Date | between 1797 and 1803 |
| Source | http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/ecology/index.html |
| Author | James Sowerby (March 21, 1757 - October 25, 1822) , English naturalist and illustrator |
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