Bibliograph

Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States, a field guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, David P. Lewis

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Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States, a field guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, David P. Lewis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-590) and indexes

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1044776296

Responsibility statement

Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, David P. Lewis

Sub title

a field guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida

Table Of 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

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