Hardcover,
295 pages
265
x 240 mm page size
142
colour and b/w illustrations
ISBN:
978-0-7234-1576-3
Price £40.00
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Andreas
Bresinsky
Department of Botany, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Helmut Besl Department of Botany, University of Regensburg,
Germany.
Translated by N. G. Bisset,
formerly of Chelsea College, UK.
Using up-to-date findings, this atlas provides a full colour photographic
guide to poisonous fungi, and discusses the methods of treatment
likely to prove most effective. It also helps the reader to understand
the toxic substances present, the degree of toxicity of each fungus,
and its likely effects.
The
atlas includes advice on how to deal with fungi in general, and
gives emphasis to the explanation of technical terms. Identification
keys enable all the Western and Central European genera of lamellate
and tubulate fungi, and their poisonous representatives, to be identified.
A detailed bibliography completes this comprehensive scientific
and medical resource.
Contents:
1. Poisoning by fungi. 2. The poisoning syndromes
and the poisonous fungi: Phalloids syndrome; Orellanus syndrome;
Gyromitra syndrome; Muscarine syndrome; Pantherine syndrome; Psilocybin
syndrome; Coprinus syndrome; Paxillus syndrome; Gastrointestinal
syndrome; Poisoning by raw fungi. Fungi with suspect constituents.
3. Introduction to the identification of fungi.
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