Fungi for the Herbarium 
for indications of spore colour. After the plant is described it may be dried in hot 
air (over a stove for instance) and preserved or sent in for identification. 
Sketch the plant, indicating markings of cap and stem. Draw or trace a vertical 
section through the centre of cap and stem, indicating thickness of flesh; shape and 
attachment of gills; nature of interior of stem; position of ring, volva, etc. Do this 
also for a young specimen (button), showing whether the margin of the pileus is 
straight or incurved. 
N.B.—lIf not life size, note dimensions, 
When the characters vary with age or with moisture, note the changes. 
eae (flat, convex, concave, umbonate [raised in the centre], 
Pileus. umbilicate [depressed in the centre], etc.). 
Is it viscid when moist and fresh; tough, fragile, fleshy, mem- 
branaceous; smooth, floccose, scaly, silky, fibrillose; even, 
rough, wrinkled, furrowed? etc. 
Is the margin entire, wavy, striate, inrolled, upturned, smooth, 
woolly, hairy, appendiculate? etc. 
Colour and markings. 
Gills. Shape. 
Attachment (adnate, sinuate, decurrent, etc., or free). 
Are they distant or crowded, all of one length, branching or 
forked, connected by veins ? 
Surface (smooth, powdery, marked in any way). 
Colour (young and old). 
Texture (thick, thin, brittle, etc.). 
Margin (entire, wavy, scalloped, toothed, fringed). 
With Bo/et note colour, length, and size of tubes, shape and size 
of mouths, relation of pore surface to stem, etc. 
Fiesh. Consistency (firm, mealy, punky, etc.). 
Colour (in general; just under skin; near gills or tubes). 
Juice (taste and colour), 
Stem. Texture (tough, flexuous, fragile, fleshy). 
Shape (tapering either way, straight or bent, swollen, etc.). 
Exterior (cartilaginous, fibrous or not, etc.). 
Colour and markings (striate, dotted, pruinose [with a bloom], 
fibrillose, or smooth, etc.). 
Interior (hollow, solid, stuffed, fistulose [tubular], etc.). 
Base (shape, markings, etc.). 
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