Identification of the Larger Fungi

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Author

Watling, Roy, 1938-

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Produced by MFR, Eric Lehtonen, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The British Mycological Society and special thanks and appreciation are extended to the Author and Editor of the book for granting permission to release it to the public domain.

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Fungi -- Great Britain -- Identification

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60159

Release Date

August 24, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.IDENTIFICATION OF THE LARGER FUNGI
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — Where to look — Collecting — Examination — Microscopic examination
5. 5.Key to the major classes of Larger Fungi — Key to major groups based on character of basidium and fruit-body shape
6. 6.A. AGARICS AND THEIR RELATIVES — Key to major genera — (i) Agarics of woodlands and copses — (a) Mycorrhizal formers — (b) Parasites — (c) Saprophytes—wood inhabiting or lignicolous agarics — (d) Saprophytes—terrestrial agarics — (ii) Agarics of Pastures and Meadows — (a) Agarics of rough and hill pastures — (b) Agarics of chalk-grassland and rich uplands — (c) Agarics of meadows and valley-bottom grasslands — (d) Fairy-ring formers — (e) Agarics of urban areas—lawn and parkland agarics — (f) Agarics of wasteland and hedgerows
7. 7.B. BRACKET-FUNGI AND THEIR RELATIVES — Key to major genera — (i) Pored and toothed fungi — (a) Colonisers of tree trunks, stumps and branches — (b) Destroyers of timber in buildings — (c) Colonisers of cones — (d) Terrestrial forms — (ii) Chanterelles and relatives — Cantharellus cibarius Fries Chanterelle — Craterellus cornucopioides (Fries) Persoon Horn of plenty — (iii) Fairy-club fungi — Clavulina rugosa (Fries) Schroeter Wrinkled club — Clavaria vermicularis Fries White spindles — Clavulinopsis corniculata (Fries), Corner ( p. 171 ). — Typhula erythropus Fries. — Pistillaria micans Fries. — General notes on the club-fungi — Thelephora terrestris Fries Earth-fan — (iv) Resupinate fungi
8. 8.C. THE JELLY FUNGI — Key to the major groups — Dacrymyces stillatus Nees ex Fries — Hirneola auricula-judae (St Amans) Berkeley Jew’s ear — Auricularia mesenterica (S. F. Gray) Persoon — Exidia glandulosa (St Amans) Fries Witch’s butter
9. 9.D. THE STOMACH FUNGI — Key to some groups — Lycoperdon pyriforme Persoon Stump puff-ball — L. perlatum Persoon — L. foetidum Bonorden — Langermannia gigantea (Persoon) Rostkovius Giant puff-ball — Calvatia utriformis (Fries) Jaap (= C. caelata (Persoon) Morgan) — C. excipuliformis (Fries) Perdeck (= C. saccata (Vahl.) Morgan) — Bovista nigrescens Persoon — Earth-stars and Earth-balls — Earth-balls — Stinkhorns — Phallus impudicus Persoon Common stinkhorn — Mutinus caninus (Persoon) Fries — Birds nest fungi — Crucibulum laeve (de Candolle) Kambly — Sphaerobolus stellatus Persoon
10. 10.E. CUP FUNGI AND ALLIES — General Notes. — Aleuria aurantia (Fries) Fuckel Orange-peel fungus or Scarlet elf-cup — Peziza repanda Persoon Elf-cup — Morchella esculenta St Amans Common morel — Gyromirta esculenta (Persoon) Fries Turban-fungus — Helvella crispa Fries Common white helvella — Helvella lacunosa Fries, ‘Slate grey Helvella’ — Leptopodia elastica (St Amans) Boudier — Cyathipodia macropus (Fries) Dennis — Mitrula paludosa Fries, the ‘Bog beacon’ — Rhizina undulata Pine fire fungus — Daldinia concentrica (Fries) Cesati & de Notaris Cramp-balls — Xylosphaera polymorpha (Mérat) Dumortier Dead man’s fingers — Xylosphaera hypoxylon Dumortier Stag’s horn fungus
11. 11.F. SPECIALIZED HABITATS — (i) Fungi of dung and straw heaps — Bolbitius vitellinus (Fries) Fries Yellow cow-pat toadstool — Stropharia semiglobata (Fries) Quélet Dung-roundhead — Mottle-gills—on dung from Spring until Autumn. — Coprinus cinereus (Fries) S. F. Gray Dung-heap ink-cap — The genus Coprinus —or Ink-caps — General notes on dung-loving fungi and their habitats — (ii) Fungi of bonfire-sites — Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) A. H. Smith Charcoal pholiota — Tephrocybe anthracophila (Lasch) P. D. Orton — Psathyrella pennata (Fries) Pearson & Dennis Bonfire brittle-cap — Coprinus angulatus Peck Bonfire ink-cap — General notes on fungi of burnt sites — (iii) Fungi of bogs and marshes — (a) Sphagnum bogs — (b) Alder-carrs — (iv) Fungi of beds of herbaceous plants — On herbaceous stems — On bare soil — (v) Fungi of moss-cushions — Galerina hypnorum (Fries) Kühner — Galerina mycenopsis (Fries) Kühner — (vi) Heath and mountain fungi — (a) Moorland fungi — (b) Mountain fungi and the so-called Basidiolichens — (vii) Sand-dune fungi — Inocybe dunensis P. D. Orton — Psathyrella ammophila (Durieu & Léville) P. D. Orton Sand-dune brittle-cap — (viii) Subterranean fungi — General notes — Basidiomycetes — Ascomycetes — (ix) Fungal parasites — Nyctalis parasitica (Fries) Fries Pick-a-back-toadstool — General notes on Fungicoles
12. 12.G. APPENDIX — (i) Species list of specialised habitats — INTRODUCTION — General Woodland — Conifer Woods — Deciduous Woods General — Beech Woods — Birch Woods — Oak Woods — Specific Tree Species — Grasslands — Lawns: Wasteland: Hedgerows — Specialised habitats — (ii) Glossary of technical terms — Illustrations — Abbreviations for illustrations used throughout the text — (iii) Fairy rings — (iv) Development of the agaric fruit-body — (v) References — A. Reference Texts — B. General Texts — C. Journals — D. Advanced Texts
13. 13.INDEX — Latin Names — Common Names
14. 14.Transcriber’s Notes

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