Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States : a field guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida / Alan E. Bessette, Arleen F. Bessette, and David P. Lewis.
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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 614 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Government Document Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Geographic area covered by this book
- Why collect and study wild mushrooms?
- Mushroom structure and function
- Collecting and documenting wild mushrooms
- Making a spore print
- Notes on the descriptions of illustrated species
- How to use this book
- Mushroom identification procedure
- Color key to the major groups of fungi
- Species descriptions and illustrations
- Bird's nest fungi
- Boletes
- Carbon, crust, cushion, and parchment fungi
- Chanterelles and similar fungi
- Corals and cauliflowers
- Cordyceps, tolypocladium, and similar fungi
- Cup fungi
- Earth tongues and earth clubs
- Fiber fans
- Gilled mushrooms
- Hypomyces and other parasitic fungi
- Jelly fungi
- Morels, false morels, and similar fungi
- Polypores
- Puffballs, earthballs, earthstars, and similar fungi
- Stinkhorns
- Tooth fungi
- Truffles and other hypogeous fungi
- Appendix A. Microscopic examination of fungi
- Appendix B. Chemical reagents and mushroom identification
- Appendix C. Mushrooms for the table.