NC, Smokies, 20060618
CabinCove, various.

Carex laxiculmis

All over at base of mound on Jason's Path; in fl.
GEN cesp
LF 5mm wide, many basal, upper lvs w conspic sheath, flat to W-folded, long, green, shiny
INFL 3 pist spikes and 1 term stam spike, pist spikes each w 1 stam fl at or near base, upper stam spike peduncle overtopped by 2 (may grow past one of them) pist spikes, peduncles >> sheath
pist scale ov, scar w green midvein, acute, 2.1x1.6mm
stam scale marg free, 4x1.6mm, like pist scale
PERIG fusif, many raised veins, all green, glab, wideer ab mid, tapered both ends, but not fully mature, sides flat to convex
STYLE 3, jointed
All sorts of pictures showing where all the parts are.

Cortinarius subargentatus []

The blue button up at the halfway point on Tigger's Trot went and died on me... but then I found two more fully mature right next to it.
GEN mushroom, on ground in hardwood forest under leaves, all v pale lilac aging abruptly tawny
ST 50x13-30mm, v bulbous bel, cap-color but lter bel, solid, firm but brittle but fibrous, entirely dry and smooth
CAP 50mm, convex, marg v curled in, round to sl rounded-conic, v lt bluish-grey, v shiny fibrillose, all one color to sl lter at top, dry
FLESH tough, 5mm, cap-color
GILL 2-3 per mm, cap color becoming tinged brown from spores, adnate to v sl notched, thin an d sl wavy esp at marg
SPORE print cinnamon, 1 cell, ellip, brown, min warty or textured, no pore or knob, 7-7.5x5-5.2um

Oxalis stricta

All over lawn; in fl and sparingly in fr. I thought this was O. dillenii but see 20060712.

Peltigera canina [voucher]

On mossy shady lawn down by entrance to Jason's Path; also under eaves of beeches above house and on Mary-Wanda.
GEN foliose lichen
THAL green when wet to grey to brown, shiny at center, mostly fine grey-tom and v d so at marg, marg scalloped and strongly upturned
lower surface white, cottony, veined, tufts of white rhiz sep at edge but running together in fuzzy grey masses in center
MED white
ALG blue-green
APO none found
(I've decided later on that it just isn't tomentose enough to be P. rufescens, but who knows...)

Pseudevernia consocians

GEN shrubby lichen, semi-pend, on dead hardwood
THAL lt grey, well br'd, brs flat w marg curled under, white and smooth bel, tons of br'd narr isidia ab esp near br tips, brs narrow

Usnea ceratina

GEN shrubby lichen, usnea, on dead hardwood
THAL shrubby to subpend, long sp br'd main brs, dk grey-green, smooth, lots of fibrils, lots of long narr cyl isidia in tiny papillae-like soralia esp near br tips, base v smooth dk grey-green w bone-like cracks, cortex rel thick, axis thick and pink and v tough, cortex 10% medulla 15% axis 50%
MED pink, K+ faint yell, C-, CK+ vivid yell-orange, KC+ yellish (from cortex?)
APO none