Excerpt from Fungi and How to Know Them: An Introduction to Field MycologyHalf a century ago, Berkeley noted that out of 275 species then recorded from Tasmania, no less than 113 were British, and 20 others were European Species that may be expected to occur in Britain, yet so little has the study of fungi advanced in popular estimation that I have on several occasions astonished people by remarking that a large number of fungi are cosmopolites!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.