Pictorial Key to Gene.ra op 

 PuRPuE AND Dark Brown Spored Commoh Aoarics. 



STEM OF DlfFEKt.nr STRUCTURE FROM CAP AND EASILY 

 DETACHED FROM IT 



GILLS TURN 

 DARK WHEN 

 OLD 



RIN& ON STEM 



AGARICUS 



&ROVI/I/NO CM A^ROUND 



STEM OF SAME STRUCTURE. 



EASILY DETACHED FROM IT. 



AS CAP AND NOT 



^5i7^^ ^^fi^? 



PR.AGMENTS 

 OF WEIL AT EDGE 

 OP CAP IN YOUN&, 



PLANT* 



HYPHOLOMA 



MANY SPECIES &ROMr 

 IN CLUSTERS. 



STEM 

 WITH 

 RIN& 



TO THE srEM 



U} CUP 

 ^_y ABSENT 



K^ 



Stropharia 



STEM AND CAP OF DIFFERENT STRUCTURE BUT 



NOT EASILY SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER. 



CAPS SMOOTK 



EOG-e TURNE.0 IN 



WHEN 



YOONC. 



&ILLS BROWN OR 

 PURPLISH wHEtt 

 OLD. 



STEM 

 '//// HOLLOW oa 

 STUFFEa 



PS I LOG Y BE 



ON OROUND 



Fig. 8. — Pictorial key to genera of purple and dark brown 

 spored common gilled mushrooms. 



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