Ruth Ellen Berkeley

Ruth Ellen Berkeley was an English mycologist, collector of fungi specimens and scientific botanical illustrator.[1][2] She is known for her specimen collections as well as her illustrations of British fungi particularly in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke's book Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes).[3] Her father, the mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley, named a fungal species Agaricus ruthae (now known as Pleurotus ruthae) in her honour.[4]

Ruth Ellen Berkeley
Born1846
NationalityEnglish
Known forbotanical illustration
  • Ruth's illustration of the fungus that bears her name; her initials appear at bottom of the plate.

References
  1. Berkeley, M. J.; Broome, C. E. (1882-03-01). "XXI.—Notices of British fungi". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (51): 176–183. doi:10.1080/00222938209459019.
  2. Berkeley, Rev M. J.; Broome, C. E. (1879-03-01). "XXIV.—Notices of British fungi". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (15): 202–212.
  3. Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt; Cooke, M. C. (1881). Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the "Handbook of British Fungi". London: Williams and Norgate. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.31343.
  4. Millman, Lawrence (2019). Fungipedia : a brief compendium of mushroom lore. Amy Jean Porter. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-691-19538-4. OCLC 1103605862.


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