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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. 



