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

A fungus (Clitocybe phyllophila) growing on soil. Watercolour, 1898.

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

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

A group of dung roundhead fungi (Stropharia semiglobata). Watercolour.

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

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

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

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

Poisonous fungi: 24 species, including Agaricus, Hypophyllum and Amanita species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.

Devil's bolete fungus (Boletus satanus). Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): five fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1883.

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Devil's bolete fungus (Boletus satanus). Watercolour by R. Baker, 1896.

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

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

A fungus (Stropharia aeruginosa): five fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1883.

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