Wood hedgehog mushroom, Hydnum repandum 36, flirt mushroom, Russula vesca 37, beefsteak mushroom, Fistulina hepatica 38 and black chanterelle, Craterellus cornucopioides 39. Chromolithograph after an illustration by M. C. Cooke from his own "British Edible Fungi, how to distinguish and how to cook them," London, Kegan Paul, 1891. Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914) was a British botanist, mycologist and artist. He was curator a the India Musuem from 1860 to 1879, when he transferred along with the botanical collection to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.