matchlock: an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
musket: a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
stropharia ambigua: a gilled fungus with a long stalk and a yellow slimy cap from which fragments of the broken veil hang; gills are initially white but become dark brown as spores are released