Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe Volume 3: Agarics Part 2

Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe Volume 3: Agarics Part 2, is the third volume in Geoffrey Kibby’s excellent series on Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe. It is identical in format to volume one and volume two with species accounts being illustrated with paintings, principally to highlight important characters that are sometimes difficult to ascertain from a photograph. The book is also unique in illustrating microscopic features next to each painting.Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe Volume 3: Agarics Part 2  forms part of a now proposed 4 volume series on Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe, and is the second volume to deal with the gilled fungi, the agarics.  All the volumes include both common as well as rare and occasionally found examples, with a bias to including those not found in other field guides or new to science. As Geoffrey himself recommends, the books also work well used in conjunction with complementary reference works that have good keys, such as Fungi of Temperate Europe and Fung Nordica (currently out of print)Families covered in volume 3: Agaricaceae (continued from volume 1), Psathyrellaceae, Mythicomycetaceae, Galeropsidaceae, Strophariaceae, Hymenogastraceae and CortinariaceaeWith many thousands of just the larger basidiomycetes in Britain alone to choose from, it has become obvious that to include a good representation of species, as in the previous volumes, a fourth volume would be needed. Volume 4 will allow completion of something like 98% of those gilled fungi known to date. This final volume will also include an addendum of species added to the British list since the publication of the first three volumes.Families to be covered in volume 4: Bolbitaceae, Crepidotaceae, Inocybaceae, Tubariaceae, Macrocystidiaceae and EntolomataceaeContents of volume 3Using this book     iii Families and Genera     iv Preface & Acknowledgements      v The Structures of Gilled Fungi     vi Stem Shapes     vi Common Cap Shapes     vi Gill Attachments     vii Spore Shapes and Ornamentation     vii Cystidia     viii Cap Cuticles     viii Some Common Colour Terms in Fungi     ix Glossary     x Further Reading     xii Checklist of Trees and Shrubs     xiv Keys to major groups of gilled fungi     xv Illustrations and descriptions of species     pages 1–173 Agaricaceae     2 Psathyrellaceae     14 Mythicomycetaceae     50 Galeropsidaceae     52 Strophariaceae     54 Hymenogastraceae     70 Cortinariaceae     100 Index     174 Index of Genera in Volumes 1–3      180