I.d help please!

[little_auk11]

Hello all and a merry Christmas to you!

I took several pics and notes back in October but still have a handful of species that have stumped me - must ad that i'm no expert!
I would be most appreciative for any i.d posibilities. The descriptions are not as complete as would be ideal (slaps wrist) but i have put some text with each image.

Very many thanks,

Little Auk.

[watsthat]

The second one looks like Buttercap (Collybia butryacea)

Pete

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by watsthat

The second one looks like Buttercap (Collybia butryacea)

Pete

agreed

not a lot to go on really . . . see: Help us to help you identify fungi

5 could possibly be an Entoloma
6 I think is a Psathyrella

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

I do just wonder whether #3 might be Blackening Dermoloma. Of the two lots I've seen none have had the gills bruise reddish as extensively as those though, but the stem bruising looks about right. Any chance of that photo at a slightly bigger resolution, say 1200 x 900 pixels? I could be barking up completely the wrong tree ...

Melanie

[little_auk11]

Thanks so much for the responces - very much appreciated and apologies again for lack on info. Must get out of the habbit of trying to photograph everything i see if my lunch hour rather then properly investigating as much as i can manage.

Melanie - yes, i can send a pic at a higher resolution - i'll get on that now.

Thanks again!

[little_auk11]

[SheffieldLass]

Thanks for the bigger image. It does look like Dermoloma to me, and the habitat, unimproved grassland is correct. We'll see what others think though. Check out this thread, see how it compares particularly with the one posted by ManwithnoName. Blackening dermoloma

Melanie

[little_auk11]

Hi Melanie,

Thanks for posting and apologies that i haven't responded sooner. Back at work now with the usual computer issues - we definitely need to get into the current centuary.

Anyway, yes i agree that it does look like the Blackening dermoloma photographed in the thread link you sent me. I've noted the exact spot i found the specimins last year so fingers crossed they'll show up somewhere in 2011. I'm definitely going to send some specmins off to Kew this year and am getting lots of reading done while mushrooms are somewhat thin on the ground at this end. Speaking of which, i've been reading Patrick Harding's mushroom miscellany. He mentions a female mycologist from Sheffield? Perhaps i'm being naive as Sheffield is rather large and for all i know, a hub of amanita antics but still - crossed my mind!

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by little_auk11

Hi Melanie,

Speaking of which, i've been reading Patrick Harding's mushroom miscellany. He mentions a female mycologist from Sheffield? Perhaps i'm being naive as Sheffield is rather large and for all i know, a hub of amanita antics but still - crossed my mind!

That'll be a friend of mine, a very good mycologist, not me though ...

[mollisia]

Hello,

my ideas to your fotos:

no.1: Looks like an aborted Laccaria laccata

no.2: Rhodocollybia butyracea var. asema

no. 3: no idea. Dermoloma magicum doesn't convince me, but Mel knows the species much better then me ....

no. 4: probably Volvariella gloiocephala

no. 5: An Entoloma species

no. 6: Psathyrella, possibly candolleana

no. 7: may be Inocybe cervicolor

no. 8: may be Gymnopus fusipes

best regards,
Andreas