My kind of ID key

[poschiavanus]

Whilst googling for Tricholoma I happened to come across this key, with the following couplet:

87. Mushroom identifier can think of something better to do with her time than search for erudite microscopic distinctions between virtually identical species.
.....Mealy Gray Tricholoma

87. Mushroom identifier is a true mushroom geek. ....88

It's the first time I can remember reading a dichotomous key and laughing.

poschiavanus

[Hedge Witch]

This was so funny I had to find the source.
And there was more:

37. Mushroom identifier agrees not to blame the messenger on discovering that two or three species are virtually indistinguishable--with or without a microscope. (The mushrooms all grow east of the Rocky Mountains in beech-maple or oak-hickory woods, have gray or grayish caps with varying degrees of "fibrillosity" and "streakedness," have gills that may develop dark edges, taste bitter, lack an odor, have spores 6-8 x 5-6 µ, have cystidia on the gill edges, and lack clamp connections.)

That's one jaded mycologist.

LMAO

[cybershot]

Next time I'm foraying east of the Rockies I'll be sure to remenber this key

David