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Foray members: Matthew Hutchings

This was a quick luncthime foray which turned up a few well known mushrooms and a couple I don’t recognise at all.

Agaricus Campestris - Field Mushroom
Picture Type: Cap close-up		Notes Month: October Time: Midday Diameter: 4cm Height: 3cm Terrain: Hilly Pasture Substrate: Soil Comments:

Hypholoma Fasciculare - Sulphur Tuft
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Time: Midday Diameter: 3-6cm Height: 4-6cm Terrain: Tree stump on pasture. Substrate: Wood Comments:
Picture Type: Top view

Macrolepiota Mastoidea - Slender Parasol
Picture Type: Stipe and ring		Notes Month: October Time: Midday Diameter: 10cm Height: 12cm Terrain: Hilly Pasture Substrate: Grass Comments:
Picture Type: Gills
Picture Type: Side view
Picture Type: Cap close-up

Unidentified Specimens
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Time: Midday Diameter: 5cm Height: 15cm Terrain: Cow pasture Substrate: Grass Comments: I don’t recognise this one at all. Gills were greyish white with brown patches, forked, crowded and adnexed. No noticeable smell and it had a rooting stipe going about 3cm deep with no ring.
Picture Type: Side view
Picture Type: Gills and stem ring		Notes Month: October Time: Midday Diameter: 3-8cm Height: 10-15cm Terrain: Cow pasture Substrate: Grass Comments: These were growing in a tight cluster with fused stipes at the base.Gills were white with a slight pink tinge. Slightly decurrent and crowded. Stipe was very long more or less equal with a ring which was absent on some. Light tan near the apex darkening to dark brown at the base.
Picture Type: Section
Picture Type: Stipe
Picture Type: Base of stipe
Picture Type: Cap close-up
Picture Type: Side view

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