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Atlas of Ukrainian Fungi
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BOOKS. REVIEWS etc. Atlas of Ukrainian Fungi by M. Ya Zerova , Naukova Dumka Pub\. Co., Kiev 1974, 252pp., 208 colour plates.
This atlas integrates the first two volumes of 'Viznachik gribiv Ukraini' (Determinator of the Ukrainian fungi), a work thoroughly describing the rnycoflora of Ukraina, published by Mrs Zerova in 1967-71. It covers 550 species of fungi belonging to 142 genera and 32 families, for the most part Basidiomycetes (Agaricales , Russelales, Boletales , Aphyllophorales and Gasterornycetes) but including also few Ascomycetes as Tuber, Helvella. Morchella and Gyromitra. The book includes a preface, a bibliography listing 9 Russian and 16 Western reference books, indexes of Taxons in Latin, Russian and Ukrainian , lists of edible, poisonous, wood rotting species and 208 coloured plates. For each species a reproduction of the carpophore is given, together with a section, details of basidia, cystidia and spores. For lactarii the milk colour, also when exposed to air, is shown . Each picture is followed by the name of the relevant species, genus, family and order in all 3 languages and by information on substratum, ecology, time of appearance, conditions of growth, edibility. The pictures, or at least most of them, have been reproduced from well known already consolidated works. Thus, more than half of the tables have been taken from Bresadola, 'Iconographia mycologica', about 25% from Western authors as Michael-Hennig, Rieken (mainly for Cortinarii), Melzer (for Russulae), Pilat (mainly for Boleti), Neuhoff, Engel, T. Schaeffer and others, while only 4% come from Russian monographs (Vakin, Lebedeva, Vassilkov, Bondartzev and Shvartsman). Although this method may be criticised it gives the advantage to refer to well established sources. However, more than 80 pictures or about 15% of the total, are original having been especially prepared for the Atlas. These pictures are particularly interesting as they show a number of less common, mostly steppicole fungi, like Morchella steppicola Zerova, Galeropsis desertorum Velen.et Dvor., Endoptychum agaricoides Fisch., Gyrophragmium delilei Mont., Armillaria rickeni Bohus, Limacella steppicola Zerova and Lepiotopsis baumanni Zerova . Agaricales of Georgia by I.G. Nakhutsrishvili, Metsmereba Pub\. Co., Tbilisi , 1975,212pp.
After the study published by R. Singer in the early thirties, this book is the first complete work on Agaricales covering one of the most interesting regions of the Caucasus, in which the author publishes the results of the investigation he carried out in Georgia for more than 20 years. The general part contains a systematic ecologic and geographic analysis of the Georgian Agaric flora, which he classes according to the 3 main zones: steppe, forests and mountain meadows. Geographically 6 elements have been identified: alpine, boreal, nemoral, arid, holoarctic and multi-regional, which are characterized by 6 types of distribution areas: european, eurasiatic, euroamerican, eurasiatic-arnerican, cosmopolitan and caucasic endemic. This first part of the book ends with a very interesting note on edible (I89 species) and poisonous or suspect (69 species) fungi of Georgia. As Georgians do not preserve mushrooms by salting, pickling or drying, the number of fungi used as food is limited to 30 species only, including Agaricus campestris, A . tabularis, Amanita caesarea and Pleurotus ostreatus but also less common species as Hydnum repandum, H. imbricatum, Polyporus squamosus. On the other hand Boletales, including even Boletus edulis, are considered suspect and
BOOKS. REVIEWS etc. Atlas of Ukrainian Fungi by M. Ya Zerova , Naukova Dumka Pub\. Co., Kiev 1974, 252pp., 208 colour plates.
This atlas integrates the first two volumes of 'Viznachik gribiv Ukraini' (Determinator of the Ukrainian fungi), a work thoroughly describing the rnycoflora of Ukraina, published by Mrs Zerova in 1967-71. It covers 550 species of fungi belonging to 142 genera and 32 families, for the most part Basidiomycetes (Agaricales , Russelales, Boletales , Aphyllophorales and Gasterornycetes) but including also few Ascomycetes as Tuber, Helvella. Morchella and Gyromitra. The book includes a preface, a bibliography listing 9 Russian and 16 Western reference books, indexes of Taxons in Latin, Russian and Ukrainian , lists of edible, poisonous, wood rotting species and 208 coloured plates. For each species a reproduction of the carpophore is given, together with a section, details of basidia, cystidia and spores. For lactarii the milk colour, also when exposed to air, is shown . Each picture is followed by the name of the relevant species, genus, family and order in all 3 languages and by information on substratum, ecology, time of appearance, conditions of growth, edibility. The pictures, or at least most of them, have been reproduced from well known already consolidated works. Thus, more than half of the tables have been taken from Bresadola, 'Iconographia mycologica', about 25% from Western authors as Michael-Hennig, Rieken (mainly for Cortinarii), Melzer (for Russulae), Pilat (mainly for Boleti), Neuhoff, Engel, T. Schaeffer and others, while only 4% come from Russian monographs (Vakin, Lebedeva, Vassilkov, Bondartzev and Shvartsman). Although this method may be criticised it gives the advantage to refer to well established sources. However, more than 80 pictures or about 15% of the total, are original having been especially prepared for the Atlas. These pictures are particularly interesting as they show a number of less common, mostly steppicole fungi, like Morchella steppicola Zerova, Galeropsis desertorum Velen.et Dvor., Endoptychum agaricoides Fisch., Gyrophragmium delilei Mont., Armillaria rickeni Bohus, Limacella steppicola Zerova and Lepiotopsis baumanni Zerova . Agaricales of Georgia by I.G. Nakhutsrishvili, Metsmereba Pub\. Co., Tbilisi , 1975,212pp.
After the study published by R. Singer in the early thirties, this book is the first complete work on Agaricales covering one of the most interesting regions of the Caucasus, in which the author publishes the results of the investigation he carried out in Georgia for more than 20 years. The general part contains a systematic ecologic and geographic analysis of the Georgian Agaric flora, which he classes according to the 3 main zones: steppe, forests and mountain meadows. Geographically 6 elements have been identified: alpine, boreal, nemoral, arid, holoarctic and multi-regional, which are characterized by 6 types of distribution areas: european, eurasiatic, euroamerican, eurasiatic-arnerican, cosmopolitan and caucasic endemic. This first part of the book ends with a very interesting note on edible (I89 species) and poisonous or suspect (69 species) fungi of Georgia. As Georgians do not preserve mushrooms by salting, pickling or drying, the number of fungi used as food is limited to 30 species only, including Agaricus campestris, A . tabularis, Amanita caesarea and Pleurotus ostreatus but also less common species as Hydnum repandum, H. imbricatum, Polyporus squamosus. On the other hand Boletales, including even Boletus edulis, are considered suspect and