NC, Smokies, 20060604
CabinCove, various.




Flammulina velutipes []
| | GEN | | clustered med-size mushroom, on dead maple, growing out of center of cut through a thick long-dead tree |
| | ST | | 10-20x3-4mm, hollow, black at base to yellow at top, finely clear puber all over, base sl thicker, kind of tough and cartilaginous, not rubbery |
| | CAP | | viscid, yellow at marg to sl reddish golden brown in center, smooth, sl striate around marg, 10-40mm, round, convex, skin tough and the source of the sliminess |
| | FLESH | | grey and watery, 2mm or so thick |
| | GILL | | white to cream, 2-3 per mm, deeply notched, unbr, appear finely puber to gland-puber at 30x (huge cystidia) |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, ellip, smooth, 1 cell, 6x3um |
I feel fairly confident of this one, especially after observing the cystidia at higher magnification. Seems I habitually undermeasure spore size, so I'm not concerned with my spores be a slightest bit too small.


Galium pedemontanum
In lawn; in fl and fr.
| | LF | | 4, ellip, acute, hispid |
| | PET | | 4, green to yellowish, free, lance, < 1mm, spread |
| | STAM | | 4, yell, min, alt pet |
| | STYLE | | 2, stig tiny white balls at top, ~equal to stam |
| | FR | | obcord, smooth, 2-lobed, lobes round, < 1mm, green |




Mycena clavularis-group []
| | GEN | | delicate tiny mushroom, scattered on dead maple among moss |
| | ST | | white, 40-50x1.5mm, hollow, smooth, soft, somewhat fragile |
| | CAP | | dunce-cap, 15mm wide, umber brown, dker at center, thin somewhat lter edge, translucent-striate nearly all the way to the center |
| | FLESH | | v thin, watery grey, GILL white, close (3 per mm), 1.8mm wide, deeply notched but not free, sprinkling of white powder probably spores visible at 30x |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, round, smooth but for germ pore, 4-5um |
Doesn't match the description in
Arora, but it is clearly closely related to this group of
Mycenas.
More photos:

Meleagris gallopavo

newt
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