CONTENTS
| Page | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | [5] | ||||
| Introduction | [9] | ||||
| Where to look | [9] | ||||
| Collecting | [10] | ||||
| Examination | [11] | ||||
| Microscopic examination | [12] | ||||
| Key to major groups of Larger Fungi | [21] | ||||
| A. | Agarics and their relatives | [22] | |||
| Key to major genera | [22] | ||||
| (i) | Agarics of woodlands and copses | [27] | |||
| (a) | Mycorrhizal formers | [27] | |||
| (b) | Parasites | [59] | |||
| (c) | Saprophytes—Wood-inhabiting or lignicolous agarics | [64] | |||
| (d) | Saprophytes—Terrestrial agarics | [78] | |||
| (ii) | Agarics of pastures and meadows | [95] | |||
| (a) | Agarics of rough & hill-pastures | [95] | |||
| (b) | Agarics of chalk-grassland & rich uplands | [108] | |||
| (c) | Agarics of meadows and valley-bottom grasslands | [114] | |||
| (d) | Fairy-ring formers | [118] | |||
| (e) | Agarics of urban areas—lawn and parkland agarics | [122] | |||
| (f) | Agarics of wasteland and hedgerows | [126] | |||
| B. | Bracket fungi and their relatives | [135] | |||
| Key to major genera | [135] | ||||
| (i) | Pored and toothed fungi | [140] | |||
| (a) | Colonisers of tree trunks, stumps and branches | [140] | |||
| (b) | Destroyers of timber in buildings | [154] | |||
| (c) | Colonisers of cones | [158] | |||
| (d) | Terrestrial forms | [160] | |||
| (ii) | Cantharelles and related fungi | [162] | |||
| (iii) | Fairy-club fungi | [166] | |||
| (iv) | Resupinate fungi | [176] | |||
| C. | The Jelly fungi—Key to major groups with examples | [179] | |||
| D. | The Stomach fungi; puff-balls and their relatives—Key tomajor groups with examples | [186] | |||
| E. | Cup fungi and allies | [198] | |||
| F. | Specialised Habitats | [207] | |||
| (i) | Fungi of dung and straw heaps | [207] | |||
| (ii) | Fungi of bonfire sites | [216] | |||
| (iii) | Fungi of bogs and marshes | [222] | |||
| (a) | Sphagnum bogs | [222] | |||
| (b) | Alder-carrs | [226] | |||
| (iv) | Fungi of beds of herbaceous plants | [227] | |||
| (v) | Fungi of moss-cushions | [230] | |||
| (vi) | Heath and mountain fungi | [231] | |||
| (a) | Moorland fungi | [231] | |||
| (b) | Mountain fungi & Basidiolichens | [236] | |||
| (vii) | Sand-dune fungi | [238] | |||
| (viii) | Subterranean fungi | [243] | |||
| (ix) | Fungal parasites | [246] | |||
| G. | Appendix | [249] | |||
| (i) | Species lists of specialised habitats | [249] | |||
| (ii) | Glossary | [260] | |||
| (iii) | Simple experiments with Fairy-rings | [264] | |||
| (iv) | Development of the Agaric fruit-body | [266] | |||
| (v) | References | [269] | |||
| H. | Index | [271] | |||
Cover transparency supplied by John Markham, F. R. P. S., F. Z. S.