Bleeding mushroom, Agaricus haemorrhoidarius 18, field mushroom, A. campestris 19, and A. elvensis 20. Chromolithograph after an illustration by M. C. Cooke from his own "British Edible Fungi, how to distinguish and how to cook them," London, Kegan Paul, 1891. Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914) was a British botanist, mycologist and artist. He was curator a the India Musuem from 1860 to 1879, when he transferred along with the botanical collection to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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