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Introduction. Regions and habitats: Blue Ridge Mountains ; Piedmont ; Southern Plain ; Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain ; South Atlantic Coastal Plain ; Cities, towns, and farmsteads -- Getting oriented -- Mushrooming gear -- What's in a name? -- Can you eat it? -- Musroom identification. Parts of a mushroom -- Fertile surfaces: Gills ; Pores ; Other fertile surfaces -- Spores -- The support structure: General appearance ; Color ; Surface features ; Flesh characteristics ; Stalk ; Odor and taste -- Chemical reactions -- Microscopic information -- Habitat and ecology -- How to use this book. Identification keys -- Frustration -- Species description and format -- Color key to the major groups of fungi -- Species descriptions and illustrations. Gilled mushrooms -- Pink-spored species -- Brown-spored species -- Chanterelles and similar fungi -- Boletes -- Polypores -- Crust and parchment fungi and fiber fans -- Tooth fungi -- Clustered corals and cauliflowers -- Jelly fungi -- Stinkhorns -- Puffballs, earthballs, earthstars, and similar fungi -- Bird's-nest fungi and the sphere thrower -- Cup fungi -- Morels, false morels, and similar fungi -- Earth tongues and earth clubs -- Carbon and cushion fungi -- Cordyceps, Tolypocladium, and similar fungi -- Hypomyces and Mycogone -- Other plant pathogens -- Truffles and other underground fungi -- A thumbnail history of Carolina mycology. |
