NC, Smokies, 20060605
CabinCove, twayblade area, various. 

Spores, at 400x.  Marks are 2.5um. Beautiful shot of gills, from below. Sev perfect ones, side view. 

Mycena murina-group? [] 

On 3-4" rotting hardwood on cut-off trail past twayblades, in open flat before creek. 
 GEN small delicate mushroom, loosely clumped on med-size rotting downed hardwood limb
 ST 30x1.8mm, hollow, lt tan fading almost white at the top, smooth, fragile, d short white mycelial pubesc at v base
 CAP 20mm wide, cream white edge to lt brown center w faint concentric lter rings and prom translucent radial striations nearly to center, broad conical never fully flattening out (and becoming ragged before then), smooth
 FLESH greyish watery, thin
 GILL white, unbr, 3 per mm, deeply notched, white shiny sprinkling visible at 30x (spores)
 SPORE print white
By process of elimination in Arora, this is the "catch-all" at the end of the key.

Spores, at 400x.  Marks are 2.5um. Gill, at 400x.  Terrible mount, but can still see groups of 2 and 3 spores still attached to invisible basidia (in circles), top one in particular even shows the thread-like attachments.  Marks are 2.5um.  Not color-balanced at all! Two mature ones, side view. Two mature ones, top view. 

Collybia "brown blotched smooth dimpled job" 

On ground on cut-off trail past twayblades, past creek on open shady flat hemlock area. 
 GEN med size mushroom, small loose clumps, on ground
 ST 35x2mm, bulbous base, yellish brown fading sl lter ab, smooth, yellish mycelial fuzz at v base holding leaf debris together, hollow, tough, flexible but not splitting when bent
 CAP 30mm, flat, wavy, lt sl yellowish brown, lter at edge, dker in center, irreg lter patterned "bleach" spots in incomplete broad concentric rings, sl striate around edge
 FLESH yellowish, watery, 1mm
 GILL 5-6 per mm, lt tan, unbr, 2mm wide, deeply notched
 SPORE print white? 
I appear to have found some more near Mary-Wanda spring on 20060614.

Striking close-up of fls. Plant starting to fl. Close-up of infl. Sev plants in full fl. Close-up of plant when not in fl. 

Listera smallii [] 

The main patch; shady ones starting to fl, the ones more in the open in full fl.

Plant in fl. Fls. 

Medeola virginiana [] 

Still in fl; this one on the twayblade cut-off on the bank just before it crosses the creek.

Close-up of stem.  Retrorse scabrose hooks (the \Frs. 

Galium aparine 

Took a photo.

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