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Mycologist and scientific illustrator
A.K.A.
R.E.B., Ruth E. Berkeley
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Female
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1846(King's Cliffe, United Kingdom)
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Biography
Ruth Ellen Berkeley was an English scientific botanical illustrator. She is known for illustrations of British fungi, one of which her father, mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley named for her: Agaricus ruthae (now known as Pleurotus ruthae).
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Ruth's illustration of the fungus that bears her name; her initials appear at bottom of the plate.