The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide / Alexander H. Smith and Nancy Smith Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Alexander H. (Alexander Hanchett), 1904-1986.

Weber, Nancy S., author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mushrooms--United States--Identification.

Mushrooms.

Mushrooms--Canada--Identification.

Canada.

United States.

Genre:

Field guides.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[8], 316 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

All color & enlarged

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 1980.

Contents:

Introduction. The Mushroom Plant; When and Where to Find Mushrooms; The Distribution of Mushroom Species; Collecting and Identifying Mushrooms; The Mushroom Fruiting Body; Spores; Edible or Poisonous?; Mushroom Names

How to Use the Keys

How to Read the Species Descriptions

Key to Major Groups of Fungi Illustrated

Ascomycetes. Discomycetes (Cup Fungi); Morchellaceae (True Morels) and Helvellaceae (False Morels); Hypocreales

Basidiomycetes. Auricullariales and Tremellales; Aphyllophorales; Cantharellales; Agaricales (Fleshy Poroid Species); Agaricales (Gilled Species); Gasteromycetes

Hints for the Mushroom Collector

Microscopic Characters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0472856103

9780472856107

OCLC:

6016061

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