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Amanita muscaria

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  • The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker.
  • Anatomy, surgery and botany; top, dissected head showing arteries; centre, methods of bandaging the thorax and head; below, cleft lip (harelip) and instruments for surgery on  it; bottom, fly agaric mushroom. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1890.
  • The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1893.
  • Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
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    The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 21341i
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    Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.

    | Date: [1855] | Reference: 28013i
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    Fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

    Burnett, M. A., active 1850. | Date: [1853] | Reference: 23981i
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    The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker.

    Baker, R., active 1898. | Reference: 21340i
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    The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1892.

    | Date: 1892 | Reference: 21337i
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