GEXKKAI, IXTHODCCTIOX p. 



is to write a formal description, bul if this is too difficult for the 

 amateur the following outline may be used: 



(If you wish the besl attention from the specialist, do this pari 

 well. See glossary, i 



LOCALITY. 



DATE. 



I' I NDER. 



WEATHER. 



EABITAT: ground, Leaves, humus, woods, open grove, field, 



lawn, wood ikind), tree (kind), moss, dung (kind), etc. 



HABIT: solitary, gregarious, cnespitose, subcsespitose, scattered, 

 etc. 



ODOR: farinaceous, pungent, nauseous, amygdaline, nitrous. 

 earthy, mild or slight, etc. 



TASTE: bitter, acrid, peppery, farinaceous, agreeable, mild or 

 slight, etc. 



PILEUS: size. Shape when i/oiuig; conical, campanulate, acorn- 

 shaped, cylindrical, convex, etc. 



Shape when expanded: plane, convex, obtuse, umbonate, am- 

 bilicate, depressed, etc. 



Surface: viscid, dry. hygrophanous, moist, glabrous, silky, fibril- 

 lose, virgate, iloccose, tomentose, scaly (kind of scales as: 

 loose, innate, erect, squarrose. pointed, fibrillose, large, super- 

 ficial, appressed, etc.), even, rough, wrinkled, rugose, striate. 

 furrowed, etc. 



Margin: (when young), incurved, straight, unrolled, glabrous 

 (when older), regular, irregular, wavy, tomentose, hairy, 

 striate, rimose, etc. 



Color: (when fresh and moist) (after lying a while). Important. 



GILLS: attachment: adnate, adnexed, decurrent, uncinate, i 



remote. 

 Width, relative to thickness of pilots, relative to species you 



know, or in millimeters. 

 Shape, linear, equal width throughout, ventricose, attenuated 



in front or behind, broadest in front, etc. 



