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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 change in color takes place after exposure 

 to air. 



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

 glutinous; color when young, when old; 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. 



Alilk. — 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. 



Volva. — Present or absent, persistent or disappearing, whether it splits at apex 

 or is circumscribed, or all crumbly and granular or floccose, whether the part on 

 the pileus forms warts, and then the kind, distribution, shape, persistence, etc. 



Ring. — Present or absent, fragile, or persistent, whether movable, viscid, etc. 



Spores. — Color when caught on paper. 



Estimation of Spore Numbers. — Paper containing spores is placed in distilled 

 water. The whole is stirred vigorously until the spores have been washed off the 

 paper. A Leitz counting apparatus is then employed and the number of spores 

 per square is counted. Another method is to count spores of Coprinus comatus, for 

 example in situ. For details see Buller, Researches on Fungi, p. 82. 



APPENDIX X 



List of Keys to Fleshy Fungi and Selected Keys of Fleshy Fungi 



This list includes the common accessible keys which beginners, amateurs and 

 students will find useful in the determination of all the conspicuous fungi. The 

 list is taken from the Mj'cological Bulletin, Vol. Ill: 174; 178-179; 182-183; 185- 

 186, edited by W. A. Kellerman. 

 Amanita. Lloyd: Volvae of U. S., 3, 4, 5, 6, 1898. 



McIlvaine: One Thousand American Fungi, 6, 1900. 



Morgan: Journ. Mycol., 3: 25, March, 1887. 



Peck: Rep. N. Y. State Mus., 23: 68, 1873; 33: 40, 1880; 48: 310, 1895. 

 Amanitopsis. Beardslee: Notes on the Amanitas of So. Appalachians, Part I, 

 Lloyd Library, September, 1902. 



