Mary Elizabeth Banning (1832 - 1901)
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Biography
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Biography
Banning was a collector in and around Baltimore, for much of her life. She sent almost all of her collections to Peck in New York, and produced a set of 175 watercolors of fungi, which I would love to check out. She only gets credit for one new species here, but probably there are more.
Sources
Nancy Smith Weber & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1985) A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms
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Species
Russula variata Banning in Peck
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