Stag's Horn Fungus Product:Fine art poster Plan of Greenwich Park

Plan of Greenwich Park

the chauffeur of the Earl of Sandwich

Avenue Road

Interior view of the Goldsmiths' Hall showing the grand staircase

S Algerine is also marked

Stag's Horn Fungus Product:Fine art poster Plan of Greenwich ParkPlate 2 figure 1 from the paper 'An account of a new species of fungus', by John Martyn, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 43 (1744) pp. 263 264. The specimen, classified by John Martyn as 'Boletus caule ramose', was most likely Stag's Horn fungus, [Xylaria hypoxylon]. An endorsement verso 'Jan 24 1744 45' indicates that this painting was shown to Fellows of the Royal Society at a meeting of the Royal Society on 24 January 1745.