James Sowerby     (1757 - 1822)




Photo of Panaeolus by John Denk
Panaeolus

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Biography
Selected publications
Species

Biography

Sowerby was a painter who studied at the Royal Academy in London. His pictures of fungi are important for much the same reasons as those of James Bolton and Nees von Esenbeck.

Selected Publications

Sir James Edward Smith & James Sowerby (1790 - 1814) English Botany 36 vol.

James Sowerby (1796 - 1815) Coloured figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms 3 vol.
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Species

Inocybe geophylla (Sowerby: Fries) Kummer
Inonotus radiatus (Sowerby: Fries) Karsten
Lepiota cepaestipes (Sowerby: Fries) Kummer
Lepiota cepaestipes (Sowerby: Fries) Patouillard
Panaeolus semiovatus (Sowerby: Fries) Nannfeldt & S. Lundell
Sarcoscypha occidentalis (Sowerby) Saccardo

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