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THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



Spacing, (relative) crowded, close, subdistant, distinct, few. 

 Texture, waxy, deliquescent, dissolving, dry, arid, fleshy. 

 Variations, forked, crisped, veined, intervenose, anastomosing, 



dimidiate. 

 Edge, acute, obtuse and thick, serrate, eroded, entire, fimbriate, 



flocculose, wavy, etc. 

 COLOR : very important to give the color of the gills in the young 

 plant, (e. g., Cortinarius, etc.), also when mature, after 

 bruising or touching. 



STEM: size, length, thickness above and below. 



Shape, cylindrical, tapering up or down, bulb (clavate, round- 

 ed, marginate, or abruptly depressed, large or small), flexu- 

 ous, straight, equal, ventricose, rooting. 



Texture, fleshy, cartilaginous, tough, flaccid, brittle, flexible, 

 fragile, spongy, fibrous, rigid, etc. 



Interior, hollow, tubular, cavernous, stuffed by pith, solid, 



spongy, etc. 

 Surface, (see Pileus.) 

 Color, difference at base and apex, within and without after 



handling, etc. 



FLESH OF PILEUS: consistency: rigid, compact, spongy, soft, 



brittle, etc. 

 {Jolor: when moist, under cuticle. 

 Juice: taste and color, abundance, changing after exposure to 



air. 



MYCELIUM: color, abundance. 



UNIVERSAL VEIL in young specimens, method of rupturing. 



VOLVA : size, texture, color, present, absent. 



PARTIAL VEIL: in young specimens. 



ANNULUS: texture, color, present, absent, fugacious, persistent, 

 ample, slight, etc. 



SPORES : color of spore print, drawing of spores, size. 



CYSTIDIA : shape, abundance, present, absent. 



SKETCH: a good sketch or diagram of plant or its parts. 



REMARKS. 



