Poisonous mushrooms of the northern United States and Canada - Hardcover

Ammirati, Joseph F. And Traquair, James A. And Horgen, Paul A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816614075 ISBN 13: 9780816614073

Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press, 1985

Synopsis

Quarto, Gray Cloth, , PP.396,

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Portions of this book are comprehensible to informed lay readers, but professional botanists and serious amateur collectors are the main audience. Its keys to identifying poisonous fungi are organized in written flowchart style and cover observations that can be made with the eye, microscope, and chemical reagents. Opening chapters group fungi taxonomically, discussing the field's specialized vocabulary and questions of classification. Latter chapters group poisonous fungi according to their toxins, explaining chemical action and usual medical treatment. Color photos and line drawings of the species follow these identification keys. Bibliographies appear throughout the book, which has an exhaustive glossary and index. Appropriate for academic, medical, and large public libraries. Laurie Tynan, Huntingdon Cty. Lib., Pa.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816614075
• ISBN 13: 9780816614073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 409