PUBLICATIONS OF THE BOSTON 
MYCOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Back numbers of the Bulletins (Nos. 3-8) can be supplied in limited numbers 
for 75«. a set; current numbers are furnished (free) to members only. 
Four-page forms for full notes, descriptive of toadstools, with indication of the 
most important points to be recorded, are sold for 75c. a hundred. 
Address the Treasurer, MISS J. F. CONANT, MELROSE, MASS. 
Forms like the following are offered for recording notes in the field. 
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Blocks of one hundred copies at fifteen cents per block or one dollar and a 
half per dozen. 1 
Address the Treasurer, MISS J. F. CONANT. MELROSE, MASS. 
TOADSTOOLS - FIELD NOTES.* 
Date No. 
Collected at after during dry wet weather by 
HABITAT on ground high low wet rich poor loamy clayey sandy gravelly; on 
fallen leaves twigs branches logs dead living wood; in open sparsely wood¬ 
ed pasture field lawn roadside swamp dense open evergreen deciduous 
mixed woods; under trees. 
PLANT solitary gregarious caespitose not rooting, taste 
odor 
CAP dry moist hygrophanous viscid color young old 
MARGIN straight involute when young not striate when moist dry 'becoming 
even. 
STIPE dry moist hygrophanous viscid glutinous color young 
old at first -pruinose -pulverulent -farinaceous -furfura- 
ceous above below then naked. 
GILLS color young old concolorous staining 
when bruised. 
MILK color not changing to taste mild acrid. 
VEIL none evanescent appendiculate arachnoid, thin thick not viscid 
color 
RING none trace evanescent fragile, firm persistent, not viscid glutinous, 
not movable superior inferior medial. 
VOLVA none evanescent fragile not forming warts, tough membranous per¬ 
sistent, free attached. 
SPORES color 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
*Check with an oblique line each term to be used. 
