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Stem. Texture — tough, flexuous, fragile, fleshy. 



Shape — tapering either way, straight, curved, crooked, 



twisted, etc. 

 Exterior — cartilaginous, fibrous or not, etc. 

 Color and markings — striate, dotted, pruinose, fibrillose, 



floccose or smooth, etc. 

 Interior — hollow, solid, stuffed, fistulose, etc. 

 Base — shape, markings, inserted or radicating, etc. 



Mycelium. Thread-like, cottony, compact, root -like, sclerotoid; 

 color. 



Veil. Present or absent, arachnoid or woven; fragile, persis- 

 tent, evanescent, etc. 



Ring. Present or absent, position, character, permanent or 

 fugacious. 



Volva. Present or absent, persistent or disappearing, splitting 

 at the apex or circumscissile, granular or floccose. 



Spores. Color in mass. 



Habitat. If on trees, shrubs, branches, twigs, logs, stumps — 

 kind: dead or living. 



If on the ground — wet, dry /[soil, woods, fields, pastures, etc.; 

 under or near what trees. 



Manner of growth. Solitary, in clusters, troops, caespitose or 

 concrescent. 



