Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada

Description

Basidiomycetes -- Gilled Mushrooms with Pale-Colored Spore Prints -- Amanita -- Lepiota and Allies -- Russula and Lactarius -- Wax Caps -- Tricholoma and Allies -- Gilled Mushrooms with Pink or Pinkish-Brown Spore Prints -- Volvariella and Pluteus -- Entoloma and Allies -- Gilled Mushrooms with Brown Spore Prints -- Gilled Mushrooms with Dark-Colored Spore Prints -- Boletes: The Fleshy Pore Fungi -- Polypores -- Chanterelles -- Tooth Fungi -- Club, Coral, and Fan Fungi -- Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, Bird's Nest Fungi, and Allies -- Jelly Fungi -- Ascomycetes -- Morels and False Morels -- Cup Fungi, Earth Tongues, and Pyrenomycete Allies.;The Northeast is one of the best places to find mushrooms; they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and photographs of more than 400 of the region's most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms. The geographic range covered by the book includes Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, and most of Quebec. In addition to profiles on individual species, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada also includes a general discussion and definition of fungi; information on where to find mushrooms and guidelines on collecting them; an overview of fungus ecology; and a discussion on mushroom poisoning and how to avoid it. Basidiomycetes -- Gilled Mushrooms with Pale-Colored Spore Prints -- Amanita -- Lepiota and Allies -- Russula and Lactarius -- Wax Caps -- Tricholoma and Allies -- Gilled Mushrooms with Pink or Pinkish-Brown Spore Prints -- Volvariella and Pluteus -- Entoloma and Allies -- Gilled Mushrooms with Brown Spore Prints -- Gilled Mushrooms with Dark-Colored Spore Prints -- Boletes: The Fleshy Pore Fungi -- Polypores -- Chanterelles -- Tooth Fungi -- Club, Coral, and Fan Fungi -- Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, Bird's Nest Fungi, and Allies -- Jelly Fungi -- Ascomycetes -- Morels and False Morels -- Cup Fungi, Earth Tongues, and Pyrenomycete Allies.