Weeping milk cap, Lactarius volemus 28, mild milk cap, L. subdulcis 29, milkcap, L. mitissimus 30, saffron milkcap, L. deliciosus 31, and fairy fingers, Clavaria rugosa 32. 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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