NC, Smokies, 20071126
CabinCove, fungi.

PBR. Froze for two days, then warmed up yesterday and today to 50F. Raining.

Panellus serotinus [] [voucher]

First group from same log as usual; then found another big poplar log a short distance to the left of the trail on the old road.
SPORE print creamy white (faint)

Lentinus cochleatus [] [voucher]

These are the LBMs I spurned the other day, just to the right of the trail where it crosses the creek the first time.
GEN small mushrooms, several in small clusters to scattered, on well-rotten damp poplar log (3-4" diameter)
ST 15-20x3-4mm, dk brown, v fine white puber near base?, v tough and rigid, solid, pale inside, curved
CAP 20-40mm wide, convex but v strongly umbilicate, irreg wavy contorted, light to dark brown, gen lter at marg, not viscid even when wet, soft but not v fragile
FLESH lt brown, ~1mm thick
VEIL no sign
GILL whitish, distant, sl decur, v conspic ragged/toothed
SPORE print white (heavy)

Hygrophorus psittacinus [voucher]

In leaves by old jeep road, halfway between MM connector and spring near PBR.
GEN small mushroom, single, on ground among leaves between hemlock and moist hardwood forest
ST 40x4mm, vivid yellow, v slimy, fibrous, bending in half but not breaking, hollow
CAP 15mm wide, domed to convex, v slimy, vivid yellow with vivid green marg
VEIL layer of slime
GILL almost free, thick, rel dist, bright pale yell
SPORE print white

Galerina autumnalis [] [voucher]

At foot of hill to left of jeep road, not far from .
GEN small to medium mushrooms, several grouped but not clustered, on mossy rotting poplar log
ST 20-50x2-5mm, curved to occ straight, dk brown, smooth, bending but not breaking at all, hollow, dk brown inside, pale fuzzy at base
CAP 20-50mm wide, broadly convex w margs flaring up in age, viscid when wet and slick even when dry, bright orangish brown when young turning deep dark reddish brown, splitting radially in age, hygrophanous (fading tan)
FLESH dark brown, ~1mm thick, somewhat fragile
VEIL partial, v faint superior ring, light-colored but turning dark from spores
GILL sl decur, pale yellowish aging rich dirty reddish or rusty brown, avg dist, ~2-3mm deep
SPORE print plain old brown

Crepidotus mollis [] [voucher]

Right next to .
GEN small shelf mushrooms, in rows and clusters on not-so-rotten birch log (~4-5" diameter), no odor
ST lat, stubby, cap-like
CAP 20-25mm, smooth, viscid, nice evenly rounded kidney-shaped, convex surface, pale brown at marg to darker brown in center
FLESH v thin, bends easily and soft but doesn't break, brownish
VEIL fibrillose, remnants hanging from marg seem to be obvious on all of mine, whitish
GILL lt brown, close, neat and clean, less than 2mm deep, radiate from a single little disk opp where st attaches (free?)
SPORE failed to give a print(!)

Mycena vitilis [] [voucher]

Up the right-hand slope across the creek where all the darned trees keep falling on all my trail reroutings.
GEN small mushroom, small clusters, on buried twigs, in dark damp mixed forest
ST 30-90x1.5-2.5mm, pale brownish, shiny, smooth, translucent, gracefully curved, somewhat fragile but just splits instead of breaking, hollow, extends for sev cm below ground, v d long whitish shaggy below ground, reddish or pink stains near base
CAP 15-25mm wide, conic to domed, brown, gradually lter near marg, translucent striate, marg never curled under, smooth, slick, lustrous
FLESH v thin, fragile
VEIL none
GILL dist, white, sl decur, 3-4mm deep, v shall cross-veins visible between gills
SPORE print white to maybe v sl creamy
Clearly Mycena; keys to M. galericulata in Arora, but then he mentions the unkeyed M. vitilis as being the same but with rooting portion of stem white-hairy (like mine).

Trichaptum? [] [voucher]

In mess of downed poplar limbs and stuff, by where PBR leaves creek for the first time.
GEN crust fungus, on dead but elevated poplar twig
ST none
CAP projects up to 5mm, in long continuous lines, white, v faintly concentric ridged and zoned but all white, faintly velvety, K?
FLESH much less than 1mm thick, tough, white
PORE creamy white, breaking up into irreg teeth 1 to maybe 2mm long in extreme
SPORE print whitish (faint)

Poria [] [voucher]

Same place as .
GEN crust fungus, on poplar branch on ground (~10mm diameter)
ST none
CAP none
FLESH v thin, peeling with bark
PORE delicate, 4-5per mm, peachy brownish to almost white at marg, maybe 0.5mm deep