Observations by stmcnalley

this mushroom was found in varying sizes in a fairy ring.

Spore print light brown to buff, cap flesh yellow brown to cinnamon brown. gills are cinnamon brown to orange brown, stipe surface cinnamon brown. flesh, tawny brown.

Cap slimy, smooth, with cracks in zonate margin. shape is convex in young to plane when old, with a highly wavy margin. Gills are decurrent, with an inrolled edge. margin of cap is uplifted to wavy, flesh is fleshy.

spores are smooth, aproxamately 4um x 1um. football shaped with a indent near where attached to basidia. Cap structural cells filamentous.

This russula always grows next to dandiloions. It was found in a coastal forest. The spore print was white, width of cap up to 5 cm. the stem and flesh are all white, but the surface of the cap is zonate, with black in the middle, gradating to a dark purple to even red around the margins. stipe is brittle, and breaks like chalk.

Spores are 5 um x 2.5 um, and kidney shaped. There are two lipid droplets in this spore. When doing a gill smash, cystidia were found, they are oval shaped and wrinkled.

this bolete was a sight to behold, my heart aflutter as i thought of the stew I would make of it. It was fairly typical of the genus, Large light brown to buff cap, with white pore surface Stem large, bulbous and cream colored, with fine reticulation around the edge of the cap. Didn't get good spore information, but it tasted dammed good!

This mushroom was found growing grouped under a layer of moss from a downed tree. Spore Print white to creamy

Height of entire specemin: 7-8cm.

Odor is strong, like feet.

Taste unplesant. also like stinky feet.

Cap surface is brown to light brown, with white pittings near the center. flesh is white to cream, darkening slowly from tehtime of picking.

Stipe surface is brown to white, ligher color is present apical from the annuus, the basal protion of the stipe is brown, and ornamented with light brown scabers. Stipe consistancy is fibrous, and solid throughout.

annulus is white, highly membranous, with yellowing around the tips.

Spores are approx 6um x 2um, rounded to globular in shape, rough ornamentation.

This cladonia, is a coastal species, that does not form conspicuous cups. It is a tall, unbranching cladonia, with very small apothecia at the tips of the branches. It grows strongly grouped, to the point where individual podetia tie together to make a mat of sorts. it was found in the transition zone between the coastal grasses, and forested area.

This lichen was found on a North facing drainage ditch on the side of the road. it is isidiate around the margins, and slightly tormentose, not glabrose. Rhizines are of varying length, short and sparse around the margins, long internally. The length varies form about 2.5mm to about 2 cm.

This peltigera was found on the ground growing around a large clump of moss and some Suillius flavidus. The haitat of this lichen was highly coastal, with lots of salty rain coming in most nights. Defining features are low, broad veins, with short rhizines (approx 5mm). near the margins, the veins are so low and broad they can only be distinguished from the underside by a slight difference in coloration (the veins are an orange-bown.) The upper surface dried a gray to brown color.

This classic looking cladonia is a true representative of why the Genusis called "Pixie cups" these are small to large cup lichens, with squamules at the base becoming sorediate after the first eighth of the height of the podetia. the inside of the cups are highly sorediate, with coarse, granular soredia. primary thalli are squamulose. all podetia are hollow.

This highly branched Usnea was found growing on a hardwood twig on the Evergreen State College campus. it has copious branching, and a white central cord. Brittle to the touch when dry, but very soft and spongey when wet. Each individual thallus is attached at a central holdfast, from where all the rest of the thallus branches out dichotomously.