Cover pages of some representative historical publications on fungal fairy rings A the work of W. H. Wollaston in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, first to describe fungal origins of the rings in 1807 B contribution to the chemistry of fairy rings in the Journal of the Chemical Society in 1883 by J. B. Lawes, J. H. Gilbert and R. Warington C the work of H. Evershed published in Nature 1884 collecting evidence of nitrogen accumulation as biostimulant of vegetation in the ring pattern D the review published by H. L. Shantz and R. Piemeisel in 1917 in the Journal of Agricultural Research.