British Basidiomycetæ: A Handbook to the larger British Fungi

Abstract

EVERY mycologist will welcome the appearance of this volume, which is issued under the auspices of the British Mycological Society and repre sents thirty years of careful and continuous field-work on the part of its author. The author, whose skill in distinguishing our fleshy agarics one from another has been freely placed at the disposal of so many students of fungi in this country, is to be congratulated heartily upon having crowned his life's labours with the publication of a work at once so comprehensive and so valuable for reference.

British Basidiomycetæ: A Handbook to the larger British Fungi.

By Carleton Rea. (Published under the auspices of the British Mycological Society.) Pp. xii + 799. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922.) 30s. net.