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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Phillips, R., 2006
Mushrooms
An updated and expanded version of "Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe", by the same author (1981). So what's new? On the plus side: more species, updated taxonomy and English names. On the minus side: the quality of the colour illustrations is much poorer than the orignal work, with garish and oversaturated colours more appropriate to a car magazine. The smaller format means many photos have been reduced. The replacement of photo captions with a single (rather small) letter, presumably for the smaller format, assumes you read the text first them look for the illustration, which is rarely the case.
| Publisher |
Macmillan |
| Pages |
384 |
| ISBN |
0 330 44237 6 |
| Edition |
2nd, expanded edition of his 1981 book |
| Comments and Corrigenda |
Pp 68 & 70: English names reversed:
P68 Hygrocybe eburneus should be Ivory Woodwax
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P70 Hygrocybe erubescens should be Blotched Woodwax
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| Coverage |
A selection of common, larger basidiomycetes and ascomycetes. |
| Illustrations |
Colour photographs throughout. |
| Identify |
In the Hand (also useful to examine under a Compound Microscope). |
| Difficulty |
Reliable identification of fungi requires microscopy and although this work offers a goodly number of photographs, it gives insufficient microscopic details for critical work. |
Malcolm Storey
Taxonomic Scope
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