Roy Watling

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Key to the major classes of Larger Fungi

A. AGARICS AND THEIR RELATIVES Key to major genera ?1. Spores

B. BRACKET-FUNGI AND THEIR RELATIVES Key to major genera

C. THE JELLY FUNGI Key to the major groups

D. THE STOMACH FUNGI

E. CUP FUNGI AND ALLIES General Notes.

F. SPECIALIZED HABITATS (i) Fungi of dung and straw heaps

G. APPENDIX (i) Species list of specialised habitats INTRODUCTION

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE LARGER FUNGI

DEDICATION

To my parents who encouraged my interests in mushrooms and toadstools and my wife who, later, was sympathetic to my studies and assisted in the production of the manuscript.

Hulton Group Keys

IDENTIFICATION OF THE LARGER
FUNGI

by
ROY WATLING, B.Sc., Ph.D., M.I.Biol.
Principal Scientific Officer,
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Editor of series: Antony R. Kenney, M.A., B.Sc.

©
1973
R. Watling
A. R. Kenney
ISBN 0 7175 0595 2

First published 1973 by Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.,
Raans Road, Amersham, Bucks.

Reproduced and printed by photolithography and bound in
Great Britain at The Pitman Press, Bath