Table IV — Dark Purple and Black Spores
| Size of plants, small. | Psathyrella. | |
| Plants deliquescent. | Coprinus, Bolbitius. | |
| Time of growth, summer. | Coprinus, Stropharia, Panaeolus. | |
| Time of growth, autumn. | Coprinus, Psaliota, Panaeolus, Hypholoma. | |
| Habitat | In woods, in uncultivated places, on ground. | Stropharia, Psathyra. |
| In grass and fields, on ground. | Psaliota. | |
| On other plants—epiphytal. | Stropharia. | |
| On stumps. | Hypholoma, Psathyra. | |
| On wood. | Psathyra,1 Hypholoma. | |
| On manure. | Stropharia, Panaeolus, Psathyrella, Coprinus, Bolbitius. | |
| Gills, | free. | Chetonia, Psalliota, Psathyrella, Coprinus, Bolbitius. |
| adnate. | Stropharia, Hypholoma, Psathyrella. | |
| decurrent. | Gomphidius. | |
| sinuous. | Hypholoma. | |
| serrated. | ||
| distant. | ||
| in folds. | ||
| Volva. | ||
| Veil adhering to margin. | Hypholoma. | |
| Ring. | Stropharia Psalliota, Gomphidius.2 | |
| Stem, | cartilaginous. | Psathyra, Psilocybe. |
| lateral, or excentric. | ||
| none. | ||
| brittle. | ||
| Pileus, | scaly or warted. | |
| campanulate. | Psathyra, Psathyrella,3 Coprinus, Gomphidius.4 | |
| silky, cracked or fibrillose. | ||
| umbonate. | ||
| umbilicate. | ||
| striate. | Psathyra, Psathyrella. | |
| Pileus and Gills milky. | ||
1. On rotten wood.
2. A floccose ring.
3. At first, adpressed to stem.
4. Top shaped.
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