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MEMORANDA. 



No Locality, Date. Name of collector. 



Weather. 



Habitat. If on ground, low or high, wet or dry, kind of soil ; on fallen 

 leaves, twigs, branches, logs, stumps, roots, whether dead or 

 living, kind of tree ; in open fields, pastures, etc., woods, groves, 

 etc., mixed woods or evergreen, oak, chestnut, etc. 



Plants. Whether solitary, clustered, tufted, whether rooting or not, 

 taste, odor, color when bruised or cut, and if a change in color 

 takes place after exposure to the air. 



Cap. Whether dry, moist, watery in appearance (hygrophanous), 

 slimy, viscid, glutinous ; color when young, when old ; whether 

 with fine bloom, powder ; kind of scales and arrangement, whether 

 free from the cuticle and easily rubbed off. Shape of cap. 



Margin of Cap. Whether straight or incurved when young, whether 

 striate or not when moist. 



Stem. Whether slimy, viscid, glutinous, kind of scales if not smooth, 

 whether striate, dotted, granular, color ; when there are several 

 specimens test one to see if it is easily broken out from the cap, 

 also to see if it is fibrous, or fleshy, or cartilaginous (firm on the 

 outside, partly snapping and partly tough). Shape of the stem. 



Gills or Tubes. Color when young, old, color when bruised, and if 

 color changes, whether soft, waxy, brittle, or tough ; sharp or 

 blunt, plane or serrate edge. 



Milk. Color if present, changing after exposure, taste. 



Veil. (Inner veil.) Whether present or not, character, whether 

 arachnoid, and if so whether free from cuticle of pileus or attached 

 only to the edge ; whether fragile, persistent, disappearing, 

 slimy, etc., movable, etc. 



Ring. Present or absent, fragile, or persistent, whether movable, 

 viscid, etc. 



Volva. Present or absent, persistent or disappearing, whether it 

 splits at apex or is circumscissile, or all crumbly and granular or 

 floccose, whether the part on the pileus forms warts, and then 

 the kind, distribution, shape, persistence, etc. 



Spores. Color when caught on white paper. 



To the close observer additional points of interest will often be 



noted. 



To Dry the Specimens. Frequently the smaller specimens will dry 



well when left in the room, especially in dry weather, or better if 



