Book ID: 29973
BESSETTE, Alan and Walter J.SUNDBERG
Mushrooms. A Quick Reference Guide to Mushrooms of North America. 1987. (Macmillan Field Guides). many coloured photos. XVI, 173 p. 8vo. Cloth.
Contents: Acknowledgements/ Introduction (Fungi and Mushrooms/ How to Use This Guide/ Notes on Plate Descriptions/ How to Make a Spore Print/ Collecting Mushrooms/ Guidelines for Eating Wild Mushrooms)/ Checklist of Field Characters/ Sequence of Plates/ Descriptions and Plates/ Chemical Testing of Spores in Identification/ Microscopic Spore Characteristics/ Spore Data Tables/ Further Reading/ Glossary/ Index/ Credits/ About the Authors.