Forage Field Guide 37
Species That Are Not Real
Field plates by Hester Quill, naturalist of an unmapped county.
A work of fiction. Do not use it in the woods.
Every species in these plates is invented. The names, drawings, and habitats are fiction, and nothing here is a guide to finding or eating a wild mushroom.
Season
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Frost
Showing all invented plates.
Pl. 07
Tintinnabulum rosaceum
Rosy Vesper Bell
On the inner lip of cloister stones that were never quarried.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Pl. 08
Infundibulum tacitum
Hushed Funnel
In the gravel of a creek that appears only on unused maps.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Pl. 09
Tabulina lateralis
Margin Shelf
Bracketed to the shaded flank of an oak drawn in the margin.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Pl. 10
Cheirocladus muscosus
Mossfinger Coral
Among ferns that grow only in the footnote of a herbarium.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Pl. 11
Vesicula pruinata
Hoar Puff
On the needle-duff of a forest set in letterpress.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Pl. 12
Columnella atramenti
Tall Ink Column
Along cart-ruts that exist solely inside this booklet.
edibility: not applicable — imagined
edibility: not applicable — imagined
Spore print
This plate is invented. It is not a specimen and not an instruction.