CA, Southern California, 20070802
Madison Heights, dunce cap. 

Conocybe lactea [] 

Now that I see my stupid duncecap is not a Coprinus, I wonder what the hell it is.  I figured I'd retake the spore print, and start from scratch.  In fact the spore print is med brown, not black in any sense.  Grumble.

GEN

scattered singly in lawns, pop up in evening or early morning and wither by noon

ST

v fragile and hollow, whitish, even, smooth, almost shiny, 50x1mm or thinner, fairly straight

CAP

10x15mm, dunce-conical, pale buff but darkening in age, fragile, soft, smooth, not hygrophanous, v thin sl tattered marg not curled, not flattening in age

GILL

attach, pale buff to brown in age from spores, unbr, avg close

SPORE

print cin brown, almost visible at 30x, in 4's, smooth, ellip-ov, apic pore, dry, brownish, 9.0-11.0x7.0-9.0um

Spores are too small, as usual.  (See study on 20070930  I show that measuring dry spores can introduce errors up to 25%!!) It seems I'd never actually looked at the spores in all this time until just now.

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