Figures of American Fungi, Volumes I and II, 1880-1882, 1884

There are two slipcased boxes (volumes) entitled Figures of North American Fungi. Volume I contains 149 watercolor illustrations of fleshy fungi, dated variously 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1884, based on specimens found in New Jersey and New York. The plates, separated by file tabs, are as follows: Agarics(95), Gasteromycetes (7), Hydnum (7), Russula (3), Polyporus (16), and Boletus (21). All are stamped “B.B.” and “M.B.” on reverse and have watermark initials on the front. One polypore illustration is signed “Charles H. Peck, Albany, State Museum of Natural History, 21 Dec 1880.” Volume II contains 26 ink sketches of microscopic structures and ascocarps of various ascomycetes, all identified on reverse as #9225.