| Author | Phillips, R. | ||
| Year | 2006 | ||
| Title | Mushrooms | ||
| ISBN | 0 330 44237 6 | ||
| Type | Book/Report | ||
| How Complete | A large selection of common, larger basidiomycetes and ascomycetes | ||
| Source | 2nd, expanded edition of his 1981 book edition, 384pp, Macmillan | ||
| Illustrations | Colour photographs throughout | ||
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | An updated and expanded version of "Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe", by the same author (1981). So what’s new? On the plus side: more species, updated taxonomy and English names. On the minus side: the quality of the colour printing is much poorer than the original work, with garish and oversaturated colours more appropriate to a car magazine. The smaller format means many photos have been reduced. The replacement of photo captions with a single (rather small) letter, presumably for the smaller format, assumes you read the text first them look for the illustration, which is rarely the case. Finally, many of the additional photographs have been taken from Roger’s American book so are more confusing than useful in our area. | ||
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Pp 68 & 70: English names reversed:
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| Examine |  in the Hand ( Compound Microscope is also useful) | ||
| Identification difficulty | Reliable identification of fungi requires microscopy and although this work offers a goodly number of photographs, it gives insufficient microscopic details for critical work. |
