AuthorMassee, G.
Year1911
TitleBritish Fungi with a chapter on Lichens (British Fungi and Lichens)
TypeBook/Report
Source551pp, Routledge
Illustrations40 coloured plates and 21 monochrome photographs
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

An early monograph covering our entire mycota, although it concentrates on the basidiomycetes and gives very short shrift to the ascomycetes and lichens. Keys to families and genera, and partial keys to species.

This major work from Massee, who was based at Kew Botanical Gardens, appeared three years after the similar-sized opus from Smith of the Britsh Museum… Some competition perhaps?

Examine in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful)

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationSupersededFUNGItrue fungi
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