Contents -- About Mushrooms -- How and Where They Grow -- Mushrooms Edible and Poisonous -- How to Identify Them -- Gathering Them -- The Foolproof Four -- Morels, or Sponge Mushrooms -- Puffballs -- Sulphur Shelf Mushrooms, or Sulphur Polypores -- Shaggymanes -- Mushrooms with Gills -- White Spore Print -- GENUS Amanita: Amanita phalloides (Death Cap) -- A. verna -- A. muscaria (Fly Agaric) -- A. russuloides -- A. vaginata -- GENUS Armillariella (Armillaria) Armillariella (Armillaria) mellea (Honey, or Shoestring, Fungus) -- GENUS Cantharellus: Cantharellus aurantiacus -- C. cibarius -- GENUS Clitocybe: Clitocybe illudens (Jack-o'-Lantern) -- GENUS Laccaria: Laccaria (Clitocybe) laccata -- GENUS Collybia: Collybia confluens -- C. platyphylla (Broad-gilled Collybia) -- Oudemansiella (C.) radicata (Rooted Collybia) -- Flammulina (C.) velutipes (Velvet-stemmed Collybia) -- GENUS Lactarius: Lactarius cilicioides -- L. deliciosus -- L. subdulcis -- GENUS Hypomyces: Hypomyces lactifluorum -- GENUS Lentinus: Lentinus lepideus -- GENUS Lenzites: Lenzites betulina -- GENUS Lepiota: Lepiota procera (Parasol Mushroom) -- L. rachodes -- Chlorophyllum molybdites (L. morgani) -- GENUS Marasmius: Marasmius oreades (Fairy-ring Mushroom) -- GENUS Panus: Panus rudis -- GENUS Pleurotus: Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom) -- P. sapidus -- P. ulmarius -- Rusty Brown Spore Print -- GENUS Pholiota: Pholiota adiposa (Fatty Pholiota) -- Pink Spore Print -- GENUS Entoloma: Entoloma abortivum (Clitopilus abortivus) -- GENUS Pluteus: Pluteus cervinus -- GENUS Volvariella: Volvariella (Volvaria) bombycina -- Purple or Purple-Brown Spore Print -- GENUS Agaricus: Agaricus abruptibulbus -- A. campestris (Field Mushroom) -- A. rodmani (Rodman's Mushroom) -- GENERA: Psathyrella and Nematoloma: Psathyrella candolleana (Hypholoma incertum).

Nematoloma sublateritium (Brick Red Hypholoma) -- Black Spore Print -- GENUS Coprinus: Coprinus atramentarius (Inky Cap) -- C. comatus (Shaggymane) -- C. micaceus (Mica Cap or Inky Cap) -- GENUS Panaeolus: Panaeolus solidipes -- Mushrooms without Gills -- Puffballs -- GENUS Calvatia: Calvatia gigantea (Giant Puffball) -- C. caelata (Carved Puffball) -- C. cyathiformis (Vase-shaped Puffball) -- GENUS Scleroderma: Scleroderma aurantium -- Morels and Saddle Fungi -- GENUS Morchella -- GENUS Helvella: Helvella crispa -- GENUS Gyromitra: Gyromitra esculenta -- Pore Fungi -- GENUS Polyporus: Laetiporus (Polyporus) sulphureus (Sulphur Shelf Mushroom, or Sulphur Polypore) -- GENUS Strobilomyces: Strobilomyces floccopus -- GENUS Fistulina: Fistulina hepatica (Beefsteak Fungus) -- Club Fungi -- Tooth Fungi -- GENUS Hericium: Hericium ramosum (Bear's Head Fungus) -- H. coralloides (Coral Fungus) -- Jelly Fungi -- GENUS Auricularia: Auricularia auricula (Hirneola Auricula-Judae) (Jew's Ear Fungus) -- GENUS Tremella: Tremella lutescens (Yellow Jelly Fungus) -- Mushroom Cookery -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.