NC, Smokies, 20060628
CabinCove, mostly fungi.

Mushrooms

Amanita virosa []

Just uphill from old road at foot of slope above Mary-Wanda.
GEN med-tall mushroom, on soil under hemlocks and hardwoods, v pleasant sweet odor but becoming unpleasant in age
ST 100x8-10mm, thinner ab but abruptly flaring at v top, snow white, fibrous, brittle, snapping but fiberous sheath holding on, min scurfy ab ring, ragged scurfy hanging white skirt at top, prom sac-like volva at base, solid
CAP 60mm, convex to flat, splitting near edge, snow white w v faint tan blush in places but I got a blue-ish impression at first, smooth and dry but tacky, fibrillose, min ragged partial veil remnants hanging from marg, not at all striate
FLESH white, 3-4mm thick, brittle, soft, K+ faint yell
GILL snow white, free, unbr, finely erose marg, "chalky" appearance
SPORE print snow white, round, colorless, smooth, 1 cell
sticks together in large irreg sheets where walls appear to merge must be enveloped in thin gooey layer, 6.5-7.5um, borne 4 per basidium
If there were only 2 spores per basidium it would've been A. bisporigera. Such a beautiful mushroom how appropriately named.

Psathyrella foenisecii

Lawn to right of cabin, in great numbers. Rained a lot, then didn't rain yesterday, then this morning, poof!
GEN small mushroom, scattered, abundant, morning fruiting, in lawn
ST 80-90x2mm, not straight but erect, lt tan to sl dker bel, smooth to v scattered v min fibrillose catching dk brown spores, fibrous, low white mycelial fuzz at base, solid, soft flexible and cracking fibrous but not breaking
CAP to 20mm wide (most smaller), convex, tan to dirty dk brown striate, sl dker in ctr, v min cottony appearance at 30x but feels smooth
FLESH v thin (< 1mm), pale, soft and flex but not brittle
GILL dirty tan with dk brown stains from spores, unbr, notched to adnate, ~2 per mm, straight, edge v min roughened
SPORE print dk brown, dk brown, ellip, apic pore, smooth to min roughened, 1 cell, not sticking together noticeably, 11.5-15x7-8.5um, noticable walls (1-1.5um thick)

Ramaria stricta concolor

Where old road at foot of slope crosses Messer branch.
GEN coral fungus, on rotting hardwood, mild but not necessarily pleasant odor
CAP erect slender brs. br'ing in 2-3's, acute pts, min white pruinose (spores?), total 40mm tall, brs typically 5-10x1-2mm, fleshy tan bel to pale yellish tan ab, white mycelial fuzz at base, single att for entire thing, bruises v slowly brown (but not easy to bruise! it only bruised in a finger-print pattern after really squeezing the heck out of it)
SPORE print fleshy buff, spores borne all over brs, ellip, smooth, colorless, mottled, 1 cell, 7-8x3.5-4.5um, many misshapen, don't stick together much
A lot hinges on ornamentation of spores. How minute is "minutely roughened"? Easily matches both R. s. and Lentaria pinicola.

Russula maculata-group []

Just down from Mary-Wanda start on left side of road.
GEN med-short mushroom, on mossy rocky side of road in moist shaded area under rhododendrons, no odor
ST stout and rel short, white, presumably brittle, smooth
CAP 60mm, concave, v dry and smooth, gorgeous hot-pink to v sl bluish, evenly colored
FLESH 3mm thick, white, brittle, soft
GILL att, tawny, unbr, clean, straight
SPORE print striking ochre, round to sl ellip, grey, 1 cell, v conspic warty, sticking together in irreg lumps, 7-10x6.5-9.5um

Russula sororia

Just a photo.

Tyromyces unicolor []

Just uphill from old road at foot of slope above Mary-Wanda.
GEN small toothed shelf fungus, on standing dead oak trunk, v mild pleasant odor
CAP creamy white, v d white fuzzy, to 20mm wide, broadly att, top sloping a bit
FLESH soft but firm, creamy, 3mm thick, K-
GILL irreg teeth, more off-white creamy, teeth to 4-5mm long, descending trunk 10-15mm, more fuzzy cap-tissue backing teeth descending along trunk
SPORE print creamy white, round to v sl ellip, colorless, 1 cell, smooth, packs in great raft-like sheets, 5um
Only mentioned in passing under T. leucospongia in Arora (which it keys out to fairly convincingly). While the latter has incorrect spores and cap margin, the former corrects both errors.