NC, Smokies, 20051012
CabinCove, trails, mostly fungi. 

All on our property. Company here  no time to take extensive notes before fungi disintegrated, just time enough to identify a number of them.

Dentinum repandum 

 GEN on base of live decid tree in moss
 ST not slender, lter than cap, dry, fibrous
 CAP flat, orange-gold-tawny, v sl scurfy or fibrous
 GILL long irreg teeth, same color as cap, sl descending

Lycoperdon echinatum? 

 CAP oblong, small, white, flesh wh, covered with groups of white spikes joined at the tip

Bidens frondosa 

 LF odd-pin
lflts 5, lance, long acute, coarsely toothed
 PHYL multiple rows
outer much longer, v different, oblance to spat, much longer than fls, cil marg

Helianthus microcephalus? 

 LF opp, delt, toothed, trunc, caul, long acute
 FL sunflower-like but too withered to study in detail
(See 20051114 for more detailed study of a similar (possibly the same?) species.)

Galium triflorum 

 GEN decumb
 ST square, glab? 
 LF 6's, ret-barbed, cill, oblong, apic
 FR tiny, hooked-bristly
Bristly fr and 6 lvs means either G. aparine or G. triflorum.  I have to go with the latter because of apparently smooth sts.

Baeospora myosura 

 GEN tiny, on easter white pine
 ST slender, lt brown
 CAP lt brown, small knob

Russula silvicola 

 GEN single, on ground, CAP, scarlet skin, flesh white, flat
 ST white, stout, brittle
 GILL white, flaking

Stereum complicatum 

 GEN delicate-looking, on dead decid
 CAP shelf, contorted, thin, tough, yellowish-orange-tawny, d short hairy

Coprinus plicatilis 

 GEN on ground
 ST v thin and delicate, gray, fibrous
 CAP v thin and delicate, translucent, greyish with opaque tan center
 GILL gray with black spores along edges

Hygrophorus miniatus 

Hygrophorus flavescens 

Coprinus disseminatus? 

 GEN tiny, in loose groups, on ground
 ST short, slender, white, glab
 CAP dunce-cap, white with radial lines or grooves, v small
 GILL white

Plethodon serratus 

 GEN orange back, blackish sides

Papilio philenor 

Lentinus lepideus? 

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