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

Fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1890.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1893.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1892.

The fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour.

The sickener fungus (Russula emetica): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1895.

Panther cap fungus (Amanita pantherina): four fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1898.

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Poisonous and suspect mushrooms. Colour lithograph by E. W. Raschke, 1926 (?).

Atropia as an antidote to poisonous mushrooms / [T. Lauder Brunton].

Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].

Toadstools, mushrooms. Fungi, edible and poisonous : One thousand American Fungi; how to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous; giving full botanic descriptions / by Charles McIlvaine, assisted by Robert K. Macadam. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

Edible and poisonous mushrooms : what to eat and what to avoid . With eighteen coloured plates illustrating forty-eight species / [M.C. Cooke] ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.

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Poisonous and suspect mushrooms. Colour lithograph by E. W. Raschke, 1926 (?).

Atropia as an antidote to poisonous mushrooms / [T. Lauder Brunton].

Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].

Edible and poisonous mushrooms : what to eat and what to avoid . With eighteen coloured plates illustrating forty-eight species / [M.C. Cooke] ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.

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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

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Catalogue

Poisonous and suspect mushrooms. Colour lithograph by E. W. Raschke, 1926 (?).

Atropia as an antidote to poisonous mushrooms / [T. Lauder Brunton].

Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].

Edible and poisonous mushrooms : what to eat and what to avoid . With eighteen coloured plates illustrating forty-eight species / [M.C. Cooke] ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.