THE NORTH-AMERICAN-TRUFFLING-SOCIETY - INTRODUCTION TO ITS SERIES ON TRUFFLES AND TRUFFLE-LIKE FUNGI

The North American Truffling Society (NATS), founded in 1978, has memb ers across North America as well as on other continents. It conducts a continuing program on truffles and truffle-like fungi: forays, scient ific studies, education, and culinary use. Taxonomic and ecological da ta on the more than 4,500 collections by members are entered into a da ta base available to scientists studying these fungi. This paper intro duces the NATS series on descriptions of new taxa and presentation of new data on previously described taxa.