BC, Wells Gray, 20080521
WGWI east, fungi. 

Short walk up to "twin creeks" and back.  Lots of morels.  Camera broken, sigh.

Morchella elata-group [] 

Verpa bohemica [] 

Gyromitra esculenta [] 

Xeromphalina campanella [] 

Morchella esculenta [] 

CAP

whitish all over and a bit shorter and more compact, but otherwise the same as the other commoner one

SPORE

20-25x10-12um, oblong, smooth, featureless

Dasyscyphus [] 

GEN

minute apothecia on dead stalk of woody herb that dies back each winter

CAP

~0.2mm?, whitish, tiny little shaggy pompoms with apothecia buried inside

APO

hymen clear but appears deep yellowish to orangish at 30x due to granules on paraphyses asci   cyl, small, clear, smooth, ~50x5um para   lanceolate, ext past asci, encrusted with golden-brown granules, ~100x5um granules   1-4.0um but mostly 1.0-1.2um, round, smooth, floating about, K?  hairs   5um wide, many septae, tipped with clear irreg crystaline mass 10-15um wide, otherwise covered esp toward tips with v minute clear crystal "sand" (grains much less than 1um wide)

SPORE

oblong, 10x2um, clear, 1 cell, smooth

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