BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Reading edition
The following short list of comparatively recent works indicates where more detailed descriptions and illustrations of European Agarics may be consulted.
General Works, containing descriptions of the Agarics of more than one country.
Hymenomycetes Europaei, sive Epicriseos Systematis Mycologici; Elias Fries. Ed. II. Upsala, 1876.
(Although not of recent date, this work cannot be omitted, inasmuch as it embodies the experience of over fifty years of continuous observation on the part of the author, and is the sheet-anchor of the present generation of mycologists. Written in Latin.)
Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum; P. A. Saccardo. Vol. V. Padua, 1887.
(Contains descriptions of all European Agarics up to date of publication. Later discoveries are contained in various supplements. Written in Latin.)
Rysslands, Finlands och den Skandinaviska halföns Hattsvampar; P. A. Karsten. Helsingfors, 1879.
(Descriptions of Russian, Finnish and Scandinavian Agarics, in Swedish. It is in this work where Fries' subgenera, as Amanita, etc. are first raised to specific rank. Written in Swedish.)
Die Pilze Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz; Georg Winter. Leipzig, 1884.
(This forms the first volume of Rabenhorst's 'Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz,' and contains along with other fungi, descriptions of the Agarics of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in German.)
Flore Mycologique de la France et des Pays limitrophes; Lucien Quélet. Paris, 1888.
(This is undoubtedly the best and latest work containing detailed descriptions of the Basidiomycetes of Central and Western Europe. The systematic arrangement is new and somewhat perplexing, and the index is a terror. Written in French.)
Great Britain.
Illustrations of British Fungi; M. C. Cooke. London, 1881-1891.
(This is by far the most important, and at the same time the most comprehensive series of coloured figures of Agarics ever published in any country, including 1199 plates.)
Handbook of British Fungi; M. C. Cooke. London, 1883.
(This work is a second edition of Cooke's 'Handbook of British Fungi,' London, 1871, and contains descriptions of all the figures given in the 'Illustrations of British Fungi.')
British Fungus-Flora; Geo. Massee. 4 vols. London, 1892-1895.
(The first three volumes include all the British Agarics up to date of publication. In addition to a diagnosis of each species, critical notes by Fries, Berkeley, Cooke and other mycologists are appended.)
France.
Les Hyménomycètes, ou description de tous les Champignons (Fungi) qui croissent en France; C. C. Gillet. Alençon, 1874-1902.
(Contains descriptions of all known French Hymenomycetes, illustrated by 1907 coloured plates, 8vo. In French.)
Figures peintes de Champignons de la France; L. Lucand, 1884-1889.
(A series of beautifully executed figures, mostly Agarics, on 425 plates 4to size. The number of copies was in the first instance very limited, and prepared only for subscribers. No descriptive text; names and synonyms given on the plates.)
Germany.
Die Pilze Schlesiens; J. Schroeter. Breslau, 1889.
(This work constitutes Vol. III. part I. of Cohn's Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien, and contains full descriptions of all Agarics indigenous to Silesia. In German.)
Sweden.
Icones selectae Hymenomycetum nondum delineatorum; Elias Fries. Stockholm, 1867.
(An indispensable work to the student of the Agaricaceae, containing descriptions and coloured figures of numerous species on 200 4to. plates. Written in Latin.)
Austria.
Fungi Tridentini novi, vel nondum delineati, descripti, et iconibus illustrati; J. Bresadola. Tridenti, 1881-.
(This work contains very full descriptions of new or critical species, mostly Agarics, which are illustrated in colour on 217 plates, 8vo. Written in Latin. This work appears in parts at irregular intervals, and is still going on.)
Italy.
Flore Mycologique Illustrée. Les Champignons des Alpes-Maritimes; J. B. Barla. Nice, 1888-1892.
(An excellent work, 4to size, containing coloured illustrations of new, rare, or critical Agarics on 64 plates. In French.)
Holland.
Révision des Champignons tant supérieurs qu'inférieurs trouvés jusqu'à ce jour dans les Pays-Bas; C. A. J. A. Oudemans. Amsterdam, 1893.
(Vol. I. of this work contains descriptions and valuable original comments of all the Hymenomycetes, Gasteromycetes, and Hypodermei met with in Holland. Written in French.)