By Gordon Morrison
A baby crouches beside a meadow brook, and a drop of water collects and falls from the child's fingertip to proceed on its trip. the place does that trip start? excessive within the sky, rain clouds are parting. Water trickles and flows down the mountain, amassing in an upland lavatory, seeping via a beaver's dam, dashing over rocks, passing many vegetation and animals alongside its winding way—each depending on water and the various environments it shapes to dwell. writer and illustrator Gordon Morrison has captured a unmarried second in time, revealing the path and impact of water, and welcoming readers to pause and look at the area round them during this appealing and lyrical appreciation of nature and the source that makes all of it possible—a drop of water.
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4 3) Mushroom without a slime veil; cap sticky or not; odor mealy or not...................................... 5 4) Stem dry and shaggy....................................................................... Limacella glioderma, p. 265 4) Stem sticky and bald........................................................................... Limacella glischra, p. 265 5) Gills free from the stem at maturity or nearly so...................................................................... 6 5) Gills attached to the stem or running down it at maturity......................................................
Mycena luteopallens, p. 287 19) Not growing from shells and nut debris; cap variously sized.................................................. 20 20) Fresh cap sticky to slimy; gills thick........................................................................................ 21 20) Fresh cap dry; gills not thick.................................................................................................. Hygrocybe psittacina, p. Hygrocybe persistens, p. 212 22) Under conifers; odor usually mealy; stem to 2 cm thick and cap to 12 cm across; cap yellow when young but becoming brownish to yellow brown...............................
Crinipellis zonata, p. 165 47) Not completely as above........................................................................................................ 48 48) Mushrooms medium-sized; growing in clusters on the wood of hardwoods; stem bases narrowed and fused; caps brownish to yellowish; stems whitish above and grayish to brownish below; gills whitish to pinkish, running down the stem...................................... Armillaria tabescens, p. 102 48) Not completely as above........................................................................................................