Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the Brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne

Abstract

THE foundations of knowledge of the fungi as living plants were securely laid in the sixth decade of the last century by the work of Anton de Bary and the two Tulasne brothers. That of de Bary has had the widest influence, aided materially by the English translation, the “Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria”, which has been the standard textbook of English-speaking mycologists for more than forty years. The great folio volumes in Latin of the Tulasnes have been, no doubt, dipped into by many an eager young mycologist, and their magnificent plates were widely used, but the Latin is not easy and few can have had the courage to attempt systematic reading of it.

Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the Brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne.

Translated into English by W. B. Grove. Edited by Prof. A. H. Reginald Buller and Dr. C. L. Shear. Vol. 1. Pp. xxx + xxv + 247 + 5 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. xxiii + 302 + 34 plates. Vol. 3. Pp. xviii + 206 + 22 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1931.) 126s. net.