| Author | Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P.J. & Spooner B.M. |
| Year | 1997 |
| Title | British Chanterelles & Tooth Fungi |
| ISBN | 1 900347 15 6 |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the British species known at the time. |
| Source | 114pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Illustrations | A colour photograph and line drawings of the microscopy accompany each species entry. |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Nicely presented work with very complete descriptions and rather mixed colour photographs. The first key (p13) is to orders and familes. It is followed by the orders, each with a short account, followed by a key to families, and so on. The final keys to species are followed by very full species accounts with a colour photograph and line drawings of microscopy. Some of the colour plates were excessively blue in early printings (eg pages 55,67). Later printings are better. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | The same couplets are repeated slightly differently in some keys, eg couplets 5 & 6 on p13 are longer or slightly different from their equivalents in the keys on pages 44 & 58. |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Microscopic examination of spores and basidia (Chanterelles) or context hyphae (Tooth fungi). KOH (or other alkali) is useful to distinguish Hydnellum and Phellodon. Melzer’s Iodine needed for Hericiales. |
| Identification difficulty | Chanterelles are straightforward but Tooth fungi can be challenging - even separation of the two families needs a good spore print. |
