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Sumptibus imprimebatur Ratisbonae [Regensburg] :Per Hieronymum Lentzium,1737-1745..
inspired by books by india flint- Eco Dyeing and Second Skin-
this is silk dupioni dyed with eucalyptus leaves! still wet but so beautiful!
Botany Herbarium specimens stacked in cabinets and on tables, radiator, light fixture, skylights. 2nd floor gallery area, Field Columbian Museum. Wooden herbarium cases designed by Dr. Charles Millspaugh. 1912.
Original size and material: 5x7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSB34823
Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/
Botany Bay Plantation is a 4,630 acre Wildlife Management Area located on the northeast corner of Edisto Island, South Carolina
1435 and 4498 power up to lift their train out of Botany Yard for the short trip up the line to Cooks River. Normally two to three Independant Railways of Australia (IRA) trains run from Botany to Cooks River and back again each day.
I collected this Shaggy Ink Cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus) from a lawn in eastern Lake County, Illinois, and left it on a sheet of paper for about 24 hours. This is the result.
The species does not reproduce in the conventional manner—by shedding its spores into air currents under the gills. Rather, its cap dissolves into black, tarry goo that gradually drips its spores onto the ground nearby. This process of mushroom-suicide-by-melting is known a deliquescence.
Shaggy Ink Caps are well adapted to the suburban environment, and often sprout in interesting and sometimes humorous places. I once found a crop of them growing merrily away in the medium of prizewinning cultivated orchids, on display in a top-line Chicagoland greenhouse.
In my academic days, they also obligingly appeared in the mulch in front of my building on the Lake Forest College campus. I harvested them with the conscious and premeditated intent of grossing out my botany students. (Inducing a bit of disgust now and then can be a powerful teaching tool, especially in biology.) By the time the deliquescence had started, it was impossible to convince anyone that Shaggy Ink Caps are actually sought-after edible mushrooms. But they are.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Botanical Rants & Rambles album.
Battle of Camden site, Kershaw County SC: left-to right: Bert Pittman, Kathy Boyle, Pat Ferral, John Nelson
Botany Bay Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina - photo made in a maritime forest overlooking a salt marsh, the beach and the Atlantic ocean.
Steel Botany Herbarium cases and index card file catalog. Wooden herbarium cases designed by Dr. Charles Millspaugh are still in use. Field Columbian Museum. 1912.
Original size and material: 5x7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSB34825
Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/