Hygrocybe reidii

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Ecology: Precise ecological role uncertain (see Lodge and collaborators, 2013); growing scattered or gregariously under hardwoods or conifers; summer; North American distribution uncertain (it is reported from Québec, North Carolina, and Minnesota in online records). The illustrated and described collections are from Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Cap: 2-3.5 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex to planoconvex or broadly bell-shaped; bald or, under a lens, very finely fibrillose; lubricous when fresh but not sticky; bright orange; the margin scalloped when young.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem; nearly distant; pale orange, fading to yellow; short-gills frequent.

Stem: 3-5 cm long; 3-5 mm thick; more or less equal; dry; bald; pale orange, fading to yellowish; white at the base.

Flesh: Pale orange; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Odor (best detected when specimens are drying or have been recently dried and packaged) strongly sweet and slightly foul, reminiscent of honey going bad; taste not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-10 x 4-5 ; smooth; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 2- and 4-spored; to about 55 long. Hymenial cystidia absent. Lamellar trama parallel or nearly so. Pileipellis a cutis.

Zelleromyces cinnabarinus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with pines (species of Pinus, with bundled needles); growing along or gregariously; summer and fall; distributed from Mexico and Texas to the Carolinas, Illinois, and Indiana. The illustrated and described collection is from Indiana.

Fruiting Body: 1-3 cm across; shaped more or less like a ball or a rounded cushion; sometimes fused with other fruiting bodies and appearing lobed; pinched at the base, sometimes (especially when young) attached to a tiny basal stub; outer surface bald or a little felty, dry, whitish to orangish at first, maturing to dull cinnamon orange or brownish orange; interior loculate (see above), packed more tightly toward the base, whitish when young, becoming orangish to brownish.

Milk: White and abundant in young fruiting bodies; later more scant and watery; not staining tissues.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Not obtainable.

Microscopic Features: Spores 10-14 m (excluding ornamentation); globose to subglobose; ornamented with amyloid spines and ridges 0.5-1.5 m high, forming a complete or nearly complete reticulum; ornamentation fine but dense. Basidia 1- and 2-sterigmate. Cystidia not found. Peridium surface a turf of hyphae 2-3 m wide, smooth, hyaline; terminal cells cylindric to slightly fusiform or irregular.

Russula densifolia

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in dense troops; summer and fall (also over winter in warmer climates); widely distributed in North America.

Cap: 4-15 cm; broadly convex when young, later flat with a central depression, or shallowly vase-shaped; sticky at first or when wet; more or less smooth, or finely felty to the touch; initially white but soon discoloring to brownish, ashy gray, brown, or blackish; bruising slowly reddish, then blackish; the margin initially somewhat inrolled, not lined or lined faintly and widely; the cap skin peeling easily about halfway to the center.

Gills: Attached or running very slightly down the stem; narrow; close or crowded (sometimes nearly distant); white to cream, eventually yellowish; bruising slowly reddish, then blackish.

Stem: 1.5-9 cm long; 1-3.5 cm thick; white but soon darkening like the cap; bruising reddish, then blackish over the course of as much as half an hour; smooth or finely felty.

Flesh: White; hard; bruising promptly or slowly reddish on exposure, then blackish over the course of as much as half an hour.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste mild or slowly slightly to very acrid.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative. Iron salts on stem surface negative.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-11 x 6-8.5 ; elliptical to subglobose; with warts to .7 high; connectors usually forming partial or complete reticula. Pileipellis up to 500 thick; occasionally disposed as a single, cutis-like layer but more commonly two layered, with the lower level densely interwoven and cutis-like and the upper level composed of fairly erect elements embedded in a gelatinous matrix; pileocystidia absent.

Entoloma caccabus

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in bare soil under northern red oak, white oak, hop hornbeam, and persimmon; July; Coles County, Illinois.

Cap: 1-3 cm; planoconvex with a slightly incurved margin at first, becoming shallowly depressed, with a wavy margin and a small umbo; moist; bald; dark grayish brown to dark yellowish brown at first, fading markedly to medium yellowish brown (but often retaining a darker center); the margin becoming slightly translucent-lined with age.

Gills: Attached to the stem; nearly distant; whitish at first, becoming pink; short-gills frequent.

Stem: 2.5-3.5 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; equal; dry; bald or finely silky; whitish to grayish or brownish.

Flesh: Thin; insubstantial; watery whitish to brownish.

Odor and Taste: Mealy.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.

Spore Print: Pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 6-8 ; 5- to 6-sided; heterodiametric or occasionally nearly isodiametric; angular; smooth; hyaline. Hymenial cystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-12.5 wide, brown to brownish in 10% ammonia, with intracellular pigment. Clamp connections present.

Podaxis pistillaris

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Ecology: Presumably saprobic; growing alone or scattered in arid, desert settings—including wasteland, fields, and urban locations; fall through spring; fairly common in the deserts of the southwest and California. The illustrated and described collection is from southern California.

Cap: 4-8 cm high and 2-4 cm across at maturity; oval when young, becoming more or less cylindric, with a rounded apex; shaggy to scaly; dry; white to whitish or pale brownish; the margin tucked under and attached to the stem; the outer layer shredding in old age to expose the mass of spore dust inside.

Interior: Composed of vaguely gill-like, contorted plates; at first whitish but soon brownish and eventually turning into dark brown to nearly black powder.

Stem: Extending into the cap; 4-10 cm long below the cap; up to 1 cm thick; more or less equal above a base that is usually buried and rooted in the sand; extremely tough and woody; coarsely fibrillose to scaly; whitish to brownish; without a ring.

Flesh: Tough; whitish.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive.

Spore Print: Not obtainable as a "spore print," but mature specimens shed very dark brown to nearly black spore powder.

Microscopic Features: Spores 13-19 x 10-13 m (but often reported as slightly smaller, around 10-15 x 9-12 m); broadly ellipsoid; with a large pore at one end measuring 2-5 m across; with a very thick double wall; smooth; brown in KOH. Capillitial threads 3-8 m wide; occasionally septate; smooth; yellowish-walled in KOH; walls 1 m thick; sometimes becoming coiled.

Agaricus auricolor

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered in hardwood forests; summer; southern Illinois and Ohio; possibly distributed throughout southeastern North America (see discussion above). The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Ohio.

Cap: 2.5-6 cm; convex to bell-shaped at first, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; radially fibrillose and scaly with orangish yellow to yellow scales over a pale yellow surface; the margin not lined, sometimes featuring whitish veil remnants when young, yellowing when rubbed repeatedly.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills frequent; white when young, becoming dark brown with maturity; covered with a pale yellow partial veil when in the button stage.

Stem: 3-5 cm long; 3-6 mm thick; equal above a slightly swollen base; fibrillose to shaggy; with a thin, collapsing, pale yellow ring; whitish above the ring, yellowish below; yellowing when rubbed; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH yellow on cap surface and stem base.

Spore Print: Dark brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores: 4-5 x 3-4 m; ellipsoid; smooth; thick-walled; brown in KOH; brown in Melzer's. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia 10-25 x 6-10 m; septate; clavate; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis.

Cyptotrama asprata

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered to gregariously on deadwood of hardwoods or conifers; summer, or over winter in warmer climates; widely distributed in eastern North America, and also reported from Texas and the Southwest. The illustrated and described collections are from Ohio and Québec.

Cap: 9-20 mm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; granular dusted when young, remaining granular or becoming nearly bald with age; bright yellow to orangish yellow or dull yellow, darkening to brownish yellow with age; the margin sometimes becoming widely lined at maturity; the disc sometimes becoming wrinkled or nearly reticulate with age.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; distant; white; short-gills occasional.

Stem: 10-40 mm long; 1-3 mm thick; more or less equal above, or tapering to base; often with a slight basal swelling; finely granular; dry; colored like the cap, or more pale.

Flesh: Whitish to yellowish; not changing when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH pink on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-11 x 6-7 ; limoniform to sublacrymoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; not cyanophilic; inamyloid. Cheilocystidia cylindric to subfusiform, with subcapitate or merely rounded apices; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH; 35-85 x 5-10 . Pleurocystidia scattered; similar to cheilocystidia, or more widely fusiform. Lamellar trama divergent. Pileipellis hymeniform (a turf of clavate to pyriform elements); elements thin- or thick-walled, golden in KOH, interspersed with scattered fusiform pileocystidia.

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Suillus cavipes

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with larch (species of Larix, especially Larix decidua); growing alone or gregariously; fall; originally described from (and neotypified from) Austria; distributed in northern and montane Eurasia, where the host trees occur. The illustrated and described collection is from Alpine Italy.

Cap: 4-9 cm; convex at first, becoming broadly convex; dry; densely hairy to sub-scaly with whitish to brown hairs and fibrils; yellowish brown, reddish brown, or brown; featuring white partial veil remnants on the margin.

Pore Surface: Yellow; not bruising; pores angular and radially arranged, about 1-2 mm across; tubes to 5 mm deep.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 1.5-3 cm thick; equal or slightly club-shaped; yellow and bald toward the apex; brown and velvety below; with a fragile white ring; hollow; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; not staining on exposure.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Olive brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 3-3.5 m; boletoid-fusiform; smooth; yellowish in KOH. Basidia 25-28 x 4-5 m; clavate; 4-sterigmate. Cystidia 45-60 x 5-10; cylindric or subfusiform; thin-walled; smooth; hyaline to yellowish in KOH. Pileipellis a cutis of elements 5-20 m wide, smooth, hyaline to brownish in KOH, septate; with aggregations of upright hyphae; terminal cells cylindric to fusiform.

Podoscypha aculeata

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered on the ground under hardwoods; fall; southern Missouri and southern Indiana (also reported from South Carolina and Brazil).

Fruiting Body: Up to 10 cm across and 13 cm high; composed of tightly packed branches which arise from a common base, forming a rosette; branches wide and flattened, whitish to creamy, becoming grayish to pinkish or faintly brownish in old age; upper surfaces rugged; margins fringed; undersurface rugged, yellowish to cream; flesh thin, tough and leathery.

Spore Print: Undocumented; probably white.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4.5-7 x 4-5 ; smooth; ellipsoid to ovate; inamyloid. Gloeocystidia present. Hyphal structure dimitic. Clamp connections present.

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Leucocoprinus cretaceus

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, in groups, or in loose clusters in potted plants, greenhouses, planters, and so on; appearing year-round; North American distribution uncertain, but apparently uncommon, and more likely to appear in tropical and subtropical areas. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Florida.

Cap: 2-8 cm; roundish or blocky and subcylindric when young, expanding to convex or nearly flat; dry; white; covered with small, wart-like scales.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills frequent; white.

Stem: 3-8 cm long; 5-10 mm thick; with a moderately swollen base; covered with soft scales like those on the cap; white; with a fragile, white ring; basal mycelium white; attached to white rhizomorphs.

Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Reported as white to creamy.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-12 x 4-7 m; subamygdaliform to ellipsoid; smooth; with a small pore; thick-walled; hyaline to slightly yellowish in KOH; dextrinoid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Pavement cells present. Cheilocystidia 35-75 x 7.5-15 m; widely cylindric to widely fusiform or subcapitate; smooth; occasionally with refractive apical encrustations; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a densely interwoven cutis of hyaline to yellowish, smooth elements 5-7.5 m wide; terminal cells occasionally cylindric but more often with branches and outgrowths, often forming shapes suggestive of letters or letter pieces, these elements 4-10+ m wide, smooth, occasionally with walls up to 1 m thick, hyaline in KOH, fragmenting.

Boletus vermiculosoides

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in oak-hickory forests; summer; probably widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains.

Cap: 4-13 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex; dry; dull; soft; finely, innately fibrillose; olive brown to medium brown or grayish brown, fading to tan; often with a yellow marginal zone, or nearly yellow overall when young--but the yellow quickly becoming brown (in some of my collections the yellow has disappeared completely only a few hours after collecting); when fresh bruising blue to black.

Pore Surface: Dark red-brown to maroon when young, but quickly fading to dull brownish orange; bruising promptly dark blue or black; pores round, 2-3 per mm; tubes dull yellowish, to about 2 cm deep.

Stem: 7-10 cm long; up to about 2 cm thick; slender; more or less equal; covered with tiny tufts of fibers that become brownish when handled; brownish overall, with a yellowish apex and, sometimes, a pale reddish zone; not reticulate; basal mycelium whitish.

Flesh: Whitish or yellowish in cap; yellowish in upper stem; staining sky blue in cap and red in stem when sliced; often becoming riddled with worms and decaying quickly.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia reddish on cap surface; orangish on flesh. KOH dark red on cap surface; orange on flesh. Iron salts negative to greenish on cap surface; negative on flesh.

Spore Print: Olive brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 3-4.5 ; smooth; subfusiform; yellowish in KOH. Hymenial cystidia mostly fusoid-ventricose; yellow in KOH; to about <NOBR>50 x 10 ; inconspicuous.</NOBR> Pileipellis a densely tangled layer of repent to erect hyphae <NOBR>2.5-8 </NOBR> wide; terminal elements cylindric with rounded apices. Caulocystidia utriform to fusoid-ventricose; to about 40 long; hyaline to golden in KOH.

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Xanthoconium affine

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods (especially oaks and beech) and perhaps rarely with conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, south to Mexico. The illustrated and described collections are from Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky.

Cap: 2-9 cm across, convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; very minutely velvety when in the button stage, but soon bald; brown to dark brown or yellow-brown; sometimes conspicuously spotted with whitish to yellowish spots ("var. maculosus").

Pore Surface: Whitish, becoming brownish yellow and eventually yellowish brown; not bruising, or bruising dull yellowish brown; pores circular to angular, 1-2 per mm; tubes to 5-15 mm deep.

Stem: 3-8 cm long; 0.5-2 cm thick; at maturity more or less equal; solid; bald; pale at apex, streaked with a paler shade of the cap color below; not reticulate--or, in "var. reticulatum," reticulate near the apex; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Whitish throughout, unchanging when sliced, or occasionally staining slightly yellowish over time.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia negative to pinkish or orangish on cap surface; negative on flesh. KOH negative to pinkish on cap surface; negative on flesh. Iron salts negative on cap surface; negative on flesh.

Spore Print: Bright yellow-brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-14 x 3-4 ; subfusiform; smooth; yellowish to golden in KOH. Hymenial cystidia lageniform; to about 50 x 10 . Pileipellis a tightly packed trichoderm with clavate or subclavate terminal elements 7.5-12.5 wide (an "epithelium" or hymeniform turf); hyaline to ochraceous or brownish in KOH.

Entoloma versatile

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in bare soil under oaks and other hardwoods; fall; North American distribution uncertain (the illustrated and described collection was made in Illinois; see also the comments above about reports from Washington and Iowa).

Cap: 1-2 cm; conic to broadly conic; dry; finely radially fibrillose and silky; dark brownish olive; the margin not lined.

Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem; nearly distant; dull brownish at first, becoming darker brownish with a pinkish hue.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 1-3 mm thick; equal, or slightly tapered toward the apex; dry; finely fibrillose or nearly bald; whitish; discoloring brownish to yellowish near the base; base with stiff whitish hairs.

Flesh: Thin; insubstantial; whitish to brownish.

Odor and Taste: Odor unpleasant; taste mealy.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.

Spore Print: Pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-11 x 5-7 ; mostly 6-sided; heterodiametric; angular; smooth; hyaline. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia abundant; mostly lageniform with a long, pointed neck, but occasionally widely fusiform or subsaccate (when collapsed); 35-65 x 12-20 . Pileipellis a cutis; elements brown to brownish in 10% ammonia, finely encrusted, 5-10 &#181 wide. Clamp connections not found.