Ainsworth, G.C. and Sampson, K. The British Smut Fungi. (Ustilaginales). 1st. Ed. Pub. C.A.B. 1950
pp.137 with b/w. figs. Large 8vo. From the library of E.A. Ellis (author of New Naturalist No.46 - The Broads), with his stamp to ffep and dedicated to him by both authors. With a good number of annotations (some dated) to text by Ellis. Contents nr. fine. Original cloth boards in vg. plus condition. Loosely inserted is a brief obituary of E.A. Ellis from ‘The Times’ (1986).
The obituary notes that Ellis’ ‘was an expertise which came from a lifetime of observation rather than from books, and he carried out painstaking research on fungi and ivy’ which is in part shown through the annotations made to this copy of ‘The British Smut Fungi’.
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