Fly Agarics then and now
One of the greatest works on mushrooms is the Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux by Dufour in the 19th Century. The illustrations are brilliant:
![Amanita muscaria - The Hall of Einar](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Amanita-muscaria-0095.jpg)
What’s the use of illustrations in the age of photography though? Surely they are old hat?
I don’t think so. Just look at this arrangement of specimens from Yarner Wood on Dartmoor.
![Amanita muscaria - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fly-Agaric-280256.jpg)
It doesn’t have the same class, does it?