'Agaricus (Tricholoma) Colossus' [Giant Knight mushroom] mb-artist Henry_Weekes Pall Mall East

Pall Mall East

showing a crowd of figures with horses and carriages at Buckhurst Hill in Epping Forest

View of the London Orphan Asylum

The balloon was inflated using coal gas and launched from sites that included Vauxhall Gardens in London

'Agaricus (Tricholoma) Colossus' [Giant Knight mushroom] mb-artist Henry_Weekes Pall Mall EastMycological studies of the Giant Knight Agaricus (Tricholoma) Colossus (modern taxonomy Tricholoma colossus). Two side views of the fungus at different stages of development. Plate 21 from the book Icones selectae hymonomycetum nondum delineatorum, by Elias Fries (Stockholm, 1867). .' Inscribed above: 'Fries Icon. Hymenom. 21.' Inscribed below: 'AGARICUS (TRICHOLOMA) COLOSSUS. FRIES. R. Fries direx. P. Akerlund del. Lith. o. tr. h. Abrah. Lundquist &