BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The following short list of comparatively recent works indicates where more detailed descriptions and illustrations of European Agarics may be consulted.
General Works, containing descriptions of the Agarics of more than one country.
Hymenomycetes Europaei, sive Epicriseos Systematis Mycologici; Elias Fries. Ed. II. Upsala, 1876.
(Although not of recent date, this work cannot be omitted, inasmuch as it embodies the experience of over fifty years of continuous observation on the part of the author, and is the sheet-anchor of the present generation of mycologists. Written in Latin.)
Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum; P. A. Saccardo. Vol. V. Padua, 1887.
(Contains descriptions of all European Agarics up to date of publication. Later discoveries are contained in various supplements. Written in Latin.)
Rysslands, Finlands och den Skandinaviska halföns Hattsvampar; P. A. Karsten. Helsingfors, 1879.
(Descriptions of Russian, Finnish and Scandinavian Agarics, in Swedish. It is in this work where Fries' subgenera, as Amanita, etc. are first raised to specific rank. Written in Swedish.)
Die Pilze Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz; Georg Winter. Leipzig, 1884.