Part 7

43. Gills attached to and descending down the stem (decurrent); cap often depressed at the centre and sterile cells absent from the gills and the surface of the cap Clitocybe & Omphalina

Gills attached to the stem but not descending down the stem (adnate to adnexed) or if descending then distinct sterile cells on the gills, cap and stem 44

44. Cap-edge straight and usually striate when young; cap thin and somewhat conical and gills descending down the stem or not Mycena & related genera

Cap-edge incurved, non-striate and cap rather fleshy; gills not descending down the stem 45

45. Stem dark and woolly at least in the lower half and the cap viscid; fruit-bodies growing in clusters on tree-trunks Flammulina

Stem not dark and woolly 46

46. Cap viscid and stem usually rooting; fruit-body growing directly on wood or attached to wood by long strands or cords of mycelium (rhizomorphs) Oudemansiella

If cap viscid then fruit-body neither attached to wood by cords of mycelium nor stem with a rooting base Collybia & related genera

47. Stem central and gills often interconnected by veins; cap can be dried and later revived, purely by moistening Marasmius & related genera

Stem not attached to the centre of the cap and fruit-body although persistent not easily revived to natural shape after once being dried 48

48. Spore-print blue-black with solutions containing iodine 49

Spore-print yellowish in solutions containing iodine 50

49. Gills toothed or notched along the edges Lentinellus

Gills even along their edges and not toothed Panellus

50. Gills appearing as if split down their middles Schizophyllum

Gills not splitting 51

51. Gills notched or toothed along their edges Lentinus

Gills even along their edges and not toothed Panus

52. Spore print yellowish, purplish, black or pink 53

Spore-print some shade of brown, but without purplish flush 56

53. Spore-print yellowish or pinkish 54

Spore-print purplish brown or blackish 55

54. Spore-print yellowish Gyroporus

Spore-print pinkish Tylopilus

55. Spore-print purplish brown Porphyrellus

Spore-print blackish and spores ornamented Strobilomyces

56. Cap glutinous and stem with or without girdling veil (ring); within the tubes the sterile cells (cystidia) cluster together Suillus

Cap at most viscid and then only in wet weather and sterile cells within the tubes individually placed 57