Download or read book Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi written by Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary, now in its 52nd year, aims to provide all those who work with fungi a way into our accumulated knowledge on them. This edition is the first to accept that fungi have to be dispersed through three kingdoms of eukaryotes: Chromista, Fungi, and Protozoa. This edition also has several other new features: a) the inclusion of a key to the accepted families for the first time since the fifth ed. em 1961; b) a synopsis of the genera referred to particular orders and families; c) notes on major mycological collections and cross references to their acronyms; d) the revision of most general entries by specialists; d) the separate listing of many prefixed terms; f) the inclusion of entries for all accepted families and some frequently used synonyms; g) the inclusion of illustrations adjacent to the appropriate entries; and h) a larger page size to help its stay-open factor.