Description: English: Leucopaxillus giganteus (Sibth. ex Fr.) Sing. - Giant Funnel (= Agaricus giganteus Sowerby 1794). Sowerby produced "Coloured figures of English fungi" with 440 drawings and many models of fungi; the models were made expressly to aid identification of the edible and poisonous species, and some are still preserved to this day in the Natural History Museum. Date: between 1797 and 1803 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Source:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/ecology/index.html. Author: James Sowerby (March 21, 1757 - October 25, 1822) , English naturalist and illustrator. Permission(
Reusing this file): Public domain.