Agaric Flora of Sri Lanka. 1986. (Kew Bull. Add. Ser. XII). 104 line-drawings. map. VI,519 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

This mycoflora recognises and provides fully detailed descriptions and synonymy for 355 species, arranged within 94 genera and 21 families.Details of habitat and extralimital relationships are discussed. The microscopic characters are fully illustrated with line-drawings by the author, for every species. Further, habit sketches taken from the original water-colour paintings, which accompanied most of the early material, are published for the first time. In addition indented keys to orders, families, genera and species make for easy usage and ensure the rapid determination of taxa. Historically, the agaric flora of Sri Lanka represents the font for all subsequent knowledge on the tropical macrofungi. The complete revision of these early species is therefore an indispensable prerequisite to all interested in the group throughout the tropics, with implications extending far beyond the boundaries of Sri Lanka. The association of the agarics with the economic crophost-plants, such as tea, rubber, coffee, coconut and eucalyptus, and with the ectomycorrhizal family of forest-trees, the Dipterocarpaceae,makes this volume of considerable value to the plant pathologis tforesters, in addition to the taxonomists.