Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
What Are Mushrooms?
Ecology of Fungi
Humans and Fungi
The Redwood Coast
Trees of the Redwood Coast
Finding Mushrooms
Collecting Mushrooms
Identifying Mushrooms
Making Spore Prints
Tools of the Trade
Making Collections
Photographing Mushrooms
Collecting for the Table
Taxonomy and Cladistics
How to Read the Species Descriptions
How to Use the Pictorial Key to the Major Sections
Pictorial Key to the Major Sections
1 โข Chanterelles and Gomphoids
2 โข Amanita
3 โข Lepiota and Allies
4 โข Agaricus and Melanophyllum
5 โข Dark-Spored Mushrooms
6 โข Brown-Spored Decomposers
7 โข Mycorrhizal Brown-Spored Mushrooms
8 โข Cortinarius
9 โข Entoloma and Allies
10 โข Pluteus and Allies
11 โข Russula and Lactarius
12 โข Waxy Caps
13 โข The White-Spored Multitude
14 โข Pleurotoid Mushrooms
15 โข Gilled Bolete Relatives
16 โข Boletes
17 โข Polypores and Allies
18 โข Crust Fungi
19 โข Tooth Fungi
20 โข Coral and Club Fungi
21 โข Puffballs, Earthballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, and Birdโs Nests
22 โข Truffles
23 โข Jelly Fungi
24 โข Morels, False Morels, and Elfin Saddles
25 โข Cup Fungi
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Future Directions
Glossary
Resources for the Mycophile
Bibliography
General Index
Genus and Species Index