| Author | Ing, B. |
| Year | 1999 |
| Title | The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland |
| ISBN | 085546 251 5 |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | Covers all the Ceratiomyxomycetes and Myxomycetes then known in Britain and Ireland. A single Acrasiomycete common in bark cultures is also included. |
| Source | 374pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
| Illustrations | Line drawings of sporocarp, capillitium, spore etc accompany the species accounts |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A comprehensive modern account of the Myxomycetes from the British expert. The dichotomous key to orders and families follows introductory matter on life histories, collecting, preserving and examination. This is followed by the family/genus/species accounts containing further keys as appropriate. The species accounts are quite detailed, describing the sporocarp and its microscopy, the plasmodium, references to colour illustrations in other works, habitat, distibution and notes. Each account is followed by the illustrations which means the illustration sometimes appears to belong to the following species. The species accounts are arranged alphabetically, although members of a species group are placed together (eg Trichia favoginea/T. affinis, T. persimilis) which can make the entry difficult to find in a large genus. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Page 101 - Habitat: "*Metigera*" should presumably be "*Metzgeriav". Page 106 - Couplet 10: delete spore character - *insignis* (in couplet 11) has spores 8-10µm diam not "less than 8µm". |
| News | A new enlarged edition is to be published in 2015. |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope ( Stereo Microscope is also useful) |
| Specimen Preparation | Fresh or dried mature specimens, with microscopy of spores and capillitium mounted in Hoyer’s Gum Chloral |
| Identification difficulty | Mostly straightforward |
