A guidebook to 1,000 specimens of mushrooms, photographed to show the cap, stem, gills, spines and a cross section, usually in various stages of growth.

Includes index. "The most comprehensive mushroom guide with over 1,000 color photographs".--Cover.

Basidiomycetes: White-and cream-spored agarics -- Pink-spored agarics -- Brown-spored agarics -- Black-or purple-brown-spored agarics -- Lateral-stemmed agarics -- Gomphidiaceae -- Chanterelles -- Boleti, polypores, steriums, etc. toothed fungi, puffballs -- Club and coral fungi -- Jelly fungi -- Ascomycetes: Morels -- Cup fungi and others.