All that the rain promises and more: a hip pocket guide to Western mushrooms

Introduction. How to use this book ; Format and terminology ; Spore color and spore prints ; Collecting gear ; Seasonal occurrence ; Eating mushrooms ; Medicinal mushrooms ; Consciousness-altering mushrooms ; Poisonous mushrooms ; Growing mushrooms at home ; Dyeing with mushrooms ; Mushrooms and kids --

Chanterelles --

Milk caps and Russulas --

Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms without a ring --

Amanita --

Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms with a ring --

Agaricus --

Miscellaneous dark-spored gilled mushrooms --

Boletes --

Polypores --

Teeth fungi --

Coral and club fungi --

Puffballs and earthstars --

Morels and false morels --

Other mushrooms --

Toward a mushroom hunting ethic --

Checklist and index to common names.