Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interior landscapes -- The setting -- Climate -- Physiography -- Fungi: mushrooms and other cryptogams -- Fungal ecology -- Mushroom architecture -- Mushroom edibility and poisoning -- Where to look for fungi -- Fungal grouping (taxonomy) -- Tools of the trade -- Fungal groups: the hymenomycetes (having an organized hymenium) -- Agaricoid (gilled) fungi -- Boletinoid (soft, fleshy poroid) fungi -- Polyporoid (bracket- and wood-inhabiting) fungi -- Toothed (spiny or hedgehog) fungi -- Coraloid (club) fungi -- Chanterelloid fungi -- Thelephoroid (vase) fungi -- Fungal groups: the gasteromycetes (having no organized hymenium) -- Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: puffballs -- Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: bird's nest -- Gasteroid (stomach) fungi: earthstars -- Fungal groups: conifer rust, jelly, cup, and earth tongue fungi -- Conifer rust fungi -- Jelly fungi -- Cup fungi -- Earth tongue fungi -- Lichenicolous fungi: parasitic and saprophytic fungi on lichens -- Lichenized fungi: the lichens -- Ascolichens: crustose -- Ascolichens: foliose -- Ascolichens: fruticose -- Basidiolichens: coral -- Basidiolichens: agaric -- Plasmodial slime molds (mycetozoans) -- Bryophytes: the mosses and liverworts -- Introduction -- Bryophyte flora of North America -- Descriptions of common moss species -- Descriptions of common liverwort species.