The Mycological Book Clubさんのイラストまとめ

The Parroquet Agaric* is "no use whatever" but "very pretty". #MycoBookclub

*Parrot Waxcap

https://t.co/1THPqG49qb

Boletus laricinus* gets consigned to the Ugly Club. #MycoBookClub

* = Suillus viscidus?

https://t.co/zVZgj4DIkV

Here's Hussey talking about the cycle of organic life, and the role of fungi in decomposition. #MycoBookClub

https://t.co/vzbHcKmy9U

And for all you stick fans, here's Hussey sticking up for sticks:

"not the despicable things that many imagine." #MycoBookClub

Other names used by Hussey are probably unfamiliar to the modern mycologist...

The Orcella https://t.co/WgkZwpQodG

Spatterdash Agaric https://t.co/xUzaFYbOfy

... but quite delightful. #MycoBookClub

She rails too against the WRONG names.

"Judas's Ears. That is the correct name, not Jew's Ears, as commonly given..." https://t.co/8vqLWWTIo5

Mycologists now commonly refer to this species as Jelly Ear. #MycoBookClub

For other species Hussey uses names which seem perhaps even more apt than the now-accepted English names...

Snake Agaric https://t.co/ZSbKgBklhX

Liver of the Oak https://t.co/psDKad52wv

#MycoBookClub

... or Polyporus (now Laetiporus) sulphureus. Familiar to many English-speaking folk nowadays as 'Chicken of the Woods'; but not back then.

"Nothing can be more beautiful than this Aurora-tinted fungus." #MycoBookClub

https://t.co/bpI7MQ8gHa

In Britain, the 'English names' for many species have been settled upon relatively recently (see: https://t.co/swWf9fiMnN).

In Hussey's time, many species had no English, or 'vulgar' name. Take this, for example: Hydnum repandum... #MycoBookClub https://t.co/7TJvun0diZ

Hussey also writes humorously on the challenges facing Mycologists in "the labyrinth of modern bewilderment".

For example here, on the genus Russula:
https://t.co/SCtJZMQ7cl #MycoBookClub