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£6.95). After the compulsory introductory chapters (45 pp.) there is the pictorial section consisting of 255 framed pages with the illustrations. Usually there is one species on a plate, but sometimes two or three, taking up the lower half or more and a description above it. They are beautiful with quaint little inserts. Sometimes a general European distribution is shown: Amanita porphyria and Tremiscus helvelloides apparently do not occur in Britain,Pisolithus arrhizus covers the whole of the London area, Phylloporus covers most of England and Wales. But there are rather few of these maps and I would not argue with any of the others. Other bits of insert, which add to the attraction of the plates, are spores, cystidia and pieces of vegetation, dead leaves and so on. The illustrations are by Bohumil Vancura, though he gets little credit for them. There was the same collaboration in the Octopus book A Colour Guide to Familiar Mushrooms (I975) - marvellous value at 99p! Hamlyn's other recent effort was the Hamlyn Colour Guide to Mushrooms and Fungi by Jaroslav Klan (I981) with 224 pages, costing £2.95. This is a smaller book, more the size of Collins Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools by M Lange and F B Hora. Mushrooms and Toadstools by Ronald Rayner (I979) with 220 colour photographs was published in the Hamlyn Nature Guides series. Octopus Books did a double when they brought out their A Field Guide in Colour to Mushrooms and Other Fungi (I980) by Svrcek and Kubicka (£3.95). This was illustrated by colour photographs by J and M Erhart. Some of these are not particularly good and they are all crammed four to a page with the four descriptions on the facing page - an unpleasing arrangement. PC Holland Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming. This is a new magazine designed to appeal to amateur mycologists. The first part appeared in Fall 1983 and was numbered volume 1, number 1; since then two more parts have been published numbered volume 2, numbers 1 and 2. Four parts are to appear annually and the cost in this country is $16 per annum (payable in US dollars). Subscriptions are to be sent to Mushroom, Box 3156, University Station, Moscow ID 83843, USA. The co-ordinating editors are Don H Coombs and Maggie Rogers and they are assisted by contributing editors and an editorial advisory board consisting of well-known mycologists. Contributions in the form of manuscripts, drawings and photographs will be welcomed for possible publication. Some of the articles only concern American readers but others are on topics of more general interest: mycophilately, collecting mushroom postcards and there are lots of book reviews. It will be interesting to see how this publication develops. Mycologia Helvetica. Volume 1, number 1 of this new journal appeared in the autumn of 1983. The journal is issued by the Association of Swiss Mycological Societies. In fact two preliminary numbers were produced but I have not seen these. One volume will consist of 10 parts issued within 5 years and an index. The subscription rate is 14 Sw Fr per annum outside Switzerland and subscriptions are to be paid to Mme J Delamadeleine, Rue des Combes 12, CH-2034 Peseux. Articles should be submitted to The Editor, H. Gopfert , Alpenblickstrasse 53, CH-8630 Ruti who has invited contributions. The first part contains papers in French, German, Italian and English. There is a paper by H Clemencon with a key to Tricholoma terreum and its closest relatives. Two papers describe new species of Lyophyllum, M Moser discusses some Cortinarius species of the subgenus Telamonia and E Schild
£6.95). After the compulsory introductory chapters (45 pp.) there is the pictorial section consisting of 255 framed pages with the illustrations. Usually there is one species on a plate, but sometimes two or three, taking up the lower half or more and a description above it. They are beautiful with quaint little inserts. Sometimes a general European distribution is shown: Amanita porphyria and Tremiscus helvelloides apparently do not occur in Britain,Pisolithus arrhizus covers the whole of the London area, Phylloporus covers most of England and Wales. But there are rather few of these maps and I would not argue with any of the others. Other bits of insert, which add to the attraction of the plates, are spores, cystidia and pieces of vegetation, dead leaves and so on. The illustrations are by Bohumil Vancura, though he gets little credit for them. There was the same collaboration in the Octopus book A Colour Guide to Familiar Mushrooms (I975) - marvellous value at 99p! Hamlyn's other recent effort was the Hamlyn Colour Guide to Mushrooms and Fungi by Jaroslav Klan (I981) with 224 pages, costing £2.95. This is a smaller book, more the size of Collins Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools by M Lange and F B Hora. Mushrooms and Toadstools by Ronald Rayner (I979) with 220 colour photographs was published in the Hamlyn Nature Guides series. Octopus Books did a double when they brought out their A Field Guide in Colour to Mushrooms and Other Fungi (I980) by Svrcek and Kubicka (£3.95). This was illustrated by colour photographs by J and M Erhart. Some of these are not particularly good and they are all crammed four to a page with the four descriptions on the facing page - an unpleasing arrangement. PC Holland Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming. This is a new magazine designed to appeal to amateur mycologists. The first part appeared in Fall 1983 and was numbered volume 1, number 1; since then two more parts have been published numbered volume 2, numbers 1 and 2. Four parts are to appear annually and the cost in this country is $16 per annum (payable in US dollars). Subscriptions are to be sent to Mushroom, Box 3156, University Station, Moscow ID 83843, USA. The co-ordinating editors are Don H Coombs and Maggie Rogers and they are assisted by contributing editors and an editorial advisory board consisting of well-known mycologists. Contributions in the form of manuscripts, drawings and photographs will be welcomed for possible publication. Some of the articles only concern American readers but others are on topics of more general interest: mycophilately, collecting mushroom postcards and there are lots of book reviews. It will be interesting to see how this publication develops. Mycologia Helvetica. Volume 1, number 1 of this new journal appeared in the autumn of 1983. The journal is issued by the Association of Swiss Mycological Societies. In fact two preliminary numbers were produced but I have not seen these. One volume will consist of 10 parts issued within 5 years and an index. The subscription rate is 14 Sw Fr per annum outside Switzerland and subscriptions are to be paid to Mme J Delamadeleine, Rue des Combes 12, CH-2034 Peseux. Articles should be submitted to The Editor, H. Gopfert , Alpenblickstrasse 53, CH-8630 Ruti who has invited contributions. The first part contains papers in French, German, Italian and English. There is a paper by H Clemencon with a key to Tricholoma terreum and its closest relatives. Two papers describe new species of Lyophyllum, M Moser discusses some Cortinarius species of the subgenus Telamonia and E Schild