MEETING AND LECTUREat the Frelinghuysen ArboretumGuest speaker: Daniel Winkler, “Tibetan Cordyceps”

NJMA CULINARY GROUP “A New England Supper”at the Unitarian Society, Tices Lane, East BrunswickTo register, contact Bob Hosh at gombasz@comcast.net(or 908-892-6962) or Jim Richards at jimrich35@mac.com(or 908-852-1674).

NJMA OFFICERS

President - Terri LaytonVice-President - Randy HemminghausSecretary - Katy LynessTreasurer - Bob Peabody

DUES

Payable on calendar yearIndividual: $15.00Family: $20.00Mail checks (payable to NJMA) to:

Bob Peabody50 Alfalfa HillMilford, NJ 08848-1727

NJMA WEBSITE

www.njmyco.orgBob Hosh, Jim Barg

NJMA NEWS

Editor: Jim Richards211 Washington StreetHackettstown, NJ 07840-2145email: jimrich35@mac.com

Art director: Jim Bargemail: jimbarg@bssmedia.com

Circulation: Mike RubinPatrick Bernardo

Deadline for submissions:10th of even-numbered months.

Send ONLY newsletter submissions tothe Editor. All other correspondenceshould be sent to the Secretary:

Katy Lyness187 Christopher Columbus Dr.Jersey City, NJ 07302

NJMA EVENTS HOTLINE

908-362-7109 for information onNJMA events or cancellations due tobad weather.

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

Volume 40-2 March-April 2010

Sunday, March 72:00 pm

Saturday, March 206:00 pm

MEETING AND LECTUREat Willowwood Arboretum, Chester, NJ (see page 9 for directions)

Guest speaker: Dr. Tom Volk, topic “Wood Decay - Good Decay”

Sunday, April 112:00 pm

NEMF FORAY – Soyuzivka Ukranian Cultural HeritageCenter, Kerhonkson, NY. Registration form is in the previousissue of NJMA News, #40-1 (January-February 2010)

September 23 - 26

FREE BEGINNER’S CLASS I (open to NJMA members only)at the Great Swamp NWR Helen Fenske Visitor CenterPre-registration is required. Instructor: Dorothy Smullen

Saturday, March 209:00 am - 12:30 pm

NJMA EDUCATION CLASS: FIELD IDENTIFICATION OF GILLED MUSHROOMSat the Great Swamp NWR Helen Fenske Visitor Center$10 fee. Pre-registration is required. Instructor: Bob Peabody

Saturday, March 201:00 pm - 4:00 pm

FREE BEGINNER’S CLASS II (open to NJMA members only)at the home of Bob Hosh in Somerset, NJ Pre-registration is required. Instructor: Bob Hosh

Sunday, April 251:00 pm - 4:00 pm

FIRST FORAY OF THE SEASONPrinceton Water Works (Institute Woods) Leader: Jim BargBob Hosh will also join us for those wishing to learn Tree ID.

Sunday, May 210:00 am

NJMA EDUCATION CLASS: CULTIVATION WORKSHOPat the the home of Gene Varney in Somerset, NJ $10 fee. Pre-registration is required. Instructor: Gene Varney

Saturday, May 2210:00 am - 1:00 pm

NJMA EDUCATION CLASS: EXPLORING LICHENSat Rutgers University, Foran Hall (Cook College campus)$10 fee. Pre-registration is required. Instructor: Dorothy Smullen

Saturday, May 2910:00 am - 2:00 pm

NJMA EDUCATION CLASS: COOKING WITH FUNGIat the home of Bob Hosh in Somerset, NJ $20 fee.Pre-registration is required. Instructor: Bob Hosh

Saturday, June 261:00 pm - 5:00 pm

NJMA VICTOR GAMBINO FORAYKing’s Gap Environmental Center, Carlisle, PAInformation and a registration form will be in the next issueof NJMA News.

July 23 - 25

Directions to Frelinghuysen Arboretum and the Unitarian Society have been moved to page 3.

Here comes SPRING!Here comes SPRING!PHOTO BY JIM RICHARDS

POLYPORE WORKSHOP WITH DR. TOM VOLKat Cook College (Rutgers University), Foran Hall, New Brunswick, NJ$10 fee. Will include working with the microscopes. This event istentative, so check www.njmyco.org as the date approaches.

Saturday, April 1010:00 am - 2:00 pm(TENTATIVE DATE & TIME)

Seeing red on yourmailing label?

Don’t miss out on NJMA!Send your dues in now

to Bob Peabody(see address above)

IT’S TIMETO PAY

YOUR DUES.

NEMF REGISTRATION UPDATEby Paul Sadowski, Registrar, NEMF

As of February 8, 2010, all single- and double-occu-pancy rooms have been filled by registrants, faculty andguests of the Foray!

There are 70 beds remaining in a dormitory building atSoyuzivka.

The single beds are housed five to a room. Registrantsuse shared bathrooms. There are two floors, a groundfloor accommodating 30 males in six rooms, and asecond floor accommodating 40 women in eight rooms.

All beds are being covered at the triple-occupancy rates.

Registrations received for double-occupancy rooms willresult in a request from the registrar to downgrade theoccupancy and a check to cover the triple-occupancyrate. Issuing refunds is cumbersome so we hope thatregistrants will be patient in this procedure. As before,all registrants will be offered a queue number.

Once we have filled all beds in the dorm, on-campusregistration will close. We will wait-list any registrationsarriving after the close of registration, to be filled ascancellations arise according to assigned queue numbers.

tell it here!tell it here!

Got a mushroom story to tell?Got a mushroom story to tell?Got a mushroom story to tell?

Send your articles and photos to jimrich35@mac.comSend your articles and photos to jimrich35@mac.com

Share your experience with fellow mushroomers!Share your experience with fellow mushroomers!

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

In January 2010, the NJMA Executive Committee heldits annual meeting to discuss some important issues tocarry us through the next decade. The most challengingissue at hand is to cost-effectively deliver the bi-month-ly newsletter to NJMA members. The optimal scenariowould be to utilize e-mail, but we realize that somemembers prefer hard copies or do not have access to acomputer. We need to incorporate these challenges inour decision-making process to accommodate andretain as many members as possible and at the sametime monitor our bottom line.

Besides watching our bottom line, there are also otherfactors in our consideration for a change. The mostobvious reasons include the many hours of manpower ittakes to make this happen every other month. Forexample, we need volunteers to pick up newslettersfrom the printer, affix stamps and mailing labels, securethe edges for their travel through the postal system andget them to the post office. Just imagine doing this sixtimes a year for about 400 newsletters each time. Thattranslates into 2400 pieces of mail, not to mention lotsof paper cuts. There are also other advantages withelectronic delivery; you would get all the photos in colorand save many trees.

One of the main reasons for considering an alternateway to deliver the newsletter is that printing and postagecosts are on the rise. Currently, the expense of printingand postage account for almost half of our membershipincome, and we expect that the cost will more thandouble when we lose our current printing service, whichis a very likely outcome in the near future.

We’ve formed a committee to review, outline andexplore ways to disseminate newsletters with a mini-mum of disruption to our members. I am confident thatthe committee will reach a decision that will serve uswell. We are counting on everyone to do their part sothat our treasury will stay healthy for years to come.

Please say YES to electronic mail and save trees andkeep NJMA financially healthy!

Another challenging (but fun) issue we face is that aspublic awareness increases about concerns for ourecosystem, requests for our participation in bothbioblitzes and various public outreach programs are onthe rise. We’ve also established a committee to come upwith guidelines to handle various programs. We canteach the public about how important fungi are to ourecosystem.

How many times have we surprised non-mushroomerswhen we explain about the wonders of the mycorrhizalworld? Even the environmentalists and naturalists are

amazed. If you are interested in volunteering for thePublic Outreach programs, we will guide you and teachyou how best to represent NJMA and the wonderfulkingdom of fungi.

The last challenge before us is that in 2012, NJMA willbe hosting NEMF along with EPM and WPMC, so thereare lots of things to do for the next two years to be readyfor this major event.

Good news: Jim Richards, our newsletter editor, isgetting healthier after his heart attack followed by hisquad bypass last month. He is currently back on his feetand doing well with his therapy. Welcome back Jim!

Dig out your baskets and sunscreen! Spring is almosthere.

–Terri Layton

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MEET YOUR NEW NJMA OFFICERS

Front: Bob Peabody (Treasurer) and Terri Layton (President).

Behind them are Katy Lyness (Secretary) and

Randy Hemminghaus (Vice President)

EDITOR’S NOTES

The major topic that I am concerned with in this issue,namely, the distribution of NJMA News, has already beenwell-covered by Terri in her President’s Message. Wemust make a decision (and soon) about switching thisnewsletter to one that will be primarily distributed byemail rather than snail mail. Most of the members that Ihave talked to have agreed that this is the way NJMAmust go (primarily for financial reasons), but also so wecan bring you even more mycological information.Currently, when we have color photos to publish, we arerestricted to one color page per issue. When we switchover to producing an email-based publication, there willbe no limit (within reason, of course) to the amount ofcolor that we use. As it is now, we have to take a lot of thephotographs that we use and convert them to black-and-white. Not only will you get the illustrations pretty muchas we receive them, but we will not have to spend a lot ofextra time converting them to “greyscale” and worryingabout unpredictable contrast, balance, etc. Also, thebenefits of showing mushroom photos and illustrationsin color really doesn’t even need to be mentioned (but Ijust did!). There will also be more room for recipes andarticles from other newsletters. There is a lot of materialthat we receive that we cannot use now simply becauseof the extra cost involved in printing and mailing largerissues. If you have any suggestions or comments aboutthis changeover, please let Jim Barg, or me, or one of theother Newsletter Committee members know. You willfind their names in the list of Committees for 2010 thatappears elsewhere in this newsletter.

And while you are there looking up that information,you would do well to look over the other committees tosee which ones that you would like to become involvedwith. There is a wide, wide range of possibilities outthere. As you will very quickly note, almost all of the“committees” consist of one person (the chairperson). Itwould be fantastic if more of you would start to partic-ipate in club activities and turn these into genuinegroups. In particular, we are going to need a lot of youto help in 2012 when we join with Eastern PennMushroomers and Western Penn Mushroom Club inhosting NEMF. And right now, while you have thisnewsletter in your hand, it’s the perfect time to checkout the Committee List and then get the phone numberof the chairperson(s) of the group(s) that you are inter-ested in (the Membership Directory as of February 10 isalso in this issue of NJMA News) and join in.

By the way, when we do switch over to putting thenewsletter online, we will still snail mail theMembership Directory to you – We have no intentionof making your information public on the Internet.

I hope to hear from you soon. And keep those contribu-tions coming–we are going to need even more in the future.

– Jim Richards

Directions to the Frelinghuysen Arboretum,Morristown

Traveling from the South: I-287 Northbound to Exit 36A(Morris Ave.). Proceed East approx. 1/2 mile in the centerlane, past Washington Headquarters (on left). Take left forkonto Whippany Road. Turn left at 2nd traffic light onto EastHanover Avenue. Proceed for about 1/4 mile. Entrance is onleft, opposite the Morris County Library.Traveling from the North: I-287 Southbound to Exit 36,following signs for Ridgedale Avenue (bear right in exitramp). Proceed to traffic light, then turn right ontoRidgedale Avenue. At 2nd traffic light, turn right onto EastHanover Avenue. Proceed for about 1/4 mile. TheArboretum entrance is on the right just past the traffic lightat the Morris County Library.Traveling on New Route 24: New 24 West to Exit 1A, (alsolabeled as Rt. 511 South, Morristown) onto Whippany Road.Stay in right lane. Turn right at 1st traffic light onto EastHanover Avenue.Proceed for about 1/4 mile. Entrance is onleft, opposite the Morris County Library.

Directions to the Unitarian Society,Tices Lane, East Brunswick

From New Brunswick via Route 18: Take U.S. Highway 1south, exit at Ryders Lane to East Brunswick, continue to thesecond light, and turn left onto Tices Lane. The UnitarianSociety is the 2nd drive on the right before you go under theNJ Turnpike.From the south via the Garden State Parkway: Take Route 18north toward New Brunswick to Tices Lane exit (take jughan-dle from right lane of Route18 across to Tices Lane). FollowTices Lane until you pass under the Turnpike. The entrance is inthe woods on the left just after you leave the underpass.From the NJ Turnpike: take Exit 9 to Route 18. Take Rt 18South into East Brunswick. From Route 18, turn right ontoTices Lane at the third traffic light. Follow Tices Lane untilyou pass under the Turnpike. The entrance is in the woodson the left just after you leave the underpass.

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NJMA EDUCATION CLASSES for the 2010 SEASONNJMA will be offering classes in mushroom identification and other topics in 2010. The classes will be offered onweekends at various times and places – see list below. For all-day sessions, please plan to bring your own lunch.Coffee and tea will be provided. Pre-registration is required (Registration form is on page 5). Fees are listedwith the courses. Classes are limited to 25 people unless otherwise noted. Directions to the Great Swamp NWRHelen C. Fenske Visitor Center and Rutgers University are on the next page.

Saturday, March 209:00am to 12:30pm – FREE BEGINNER CLASS I (for NJMA members only)

Great Swamp NWR Helen C. Fenske Visitor CenterDorothy Smullen will introduce fungi groups, terms used in mycology, and use of identification keys. Handouts will include information about foray gear and procedures. Please register for this course even though it is free.

1:00pm to 4:00pm – GILLED MUSHROOM FIELD IDENTIFICATIONBob Peabody will present an intermediate course based on the Largent book for macroscopic features. Excellenthandouts are included. $10.00 fee.

Sunday, April 251:00pm to 3:00pm – FREE BEGINNER CLASS II (for NJMA members only)

at Bob Hosh’s home in Somerset. (directions will be sent or emailed to registrants)Bob Hosh will talk on the preserving and cooking of wild mushrooms as well as discussing the best edibles.Please register for this class even though it is free. Limited to 10 registrants.

Saturday, May 2210:00am to 1:00 pm – CULTIVATION WORKSHOP

at the home of Gene Varney in Somerset (directions will be sent or emailed to registrants)

Gene Varney will discuss and provide materials for oyster and shiitake mushroom cultivation. Other species will be

discussed. Bring lunch. $10.00 fee. Limited to 15 registrants.

Saturday, May 2910:00am to 2:00pm – EXPLORING LICHENS

at Rutgers University, Foran Hall (Cook College campus)

Dorothy Smullen will give a workshop on macrolichens. Following a PowerPoint presentation on lichen structure,

uses by man and other organisms and the connection to air pollution, registrants will use compound and dissecting

microscopes to identify many of the common New Jersey species. Lichens are classified in the fungi kingdom. Most

of them are ascomycetes. Bring both lunch and a 10x loupe. $10.00 fee. Limited to 15 registrants.

Saturday, June 261:00pm to 5:00pm – COOKING WITH FUNGI

at Bob Hosh’s home in Somerset. (directions will be sent or emailed to registrants)

Bob Hosh will coordinate a hands-on cooking workshop using different mushrooms. Participants will enjoy eating their

results. This class had rave reviews the first time it was given in 2008. $20.00 fee. Limited to 15 registrants.

We are also considering other programs for this season which might be of interest to our members. Among these,we are considering a free open house and work days sessions at the NJMA Herbarium at Rutgers, and mushroomphotography courses in both photo technique and working with your digital photos once you’ve taken them. If wedecide to hold these programs this season, we’ll notify you here in NJMA News and also on our website,www.njmyco.org. We’d appreciate if you will express your interest (no obligation) by checking off your interestson the bottom of the registration form.

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DIRECTIONS to the GREAT SWAMP NWR HELEN C. FENSKE VISITOR CENTERTake exit 30 A from Rt. 287. At the first light (Madisonville Rd.), make a left and continue past the Passaic River on yourleft (Road changes name to Lee’s Hill Rd.). Turn right at the large sign for the Great Swamp NWR. Follow the accessroad to the signs for the visitor center on the right. (Do not take Pleasant Plains Rd. from Lee’s Hill – it is now blocked)

DIRECTIONS to RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, FORAN HALLFrom NJ Turnpike: Take Exit 9, bear right to Route 18 North, New Brunswick. Follow 18 to Route 1 South. *FollowRoute 1 south past Sears and Ryders Lane exit to next exit at Squibb Dr./College Farm Road. At end of ramp turn rightonto College Farm Road. **Go past NJ Museum of Agriculture and barns to 4-way stop. Turn right at stop sign, go pastFood Science building on left to adjacent parking lot #90. Follow path to Foran Hall, a large new building behind theparking lot.

From Route 1 or 130 from the South: At intersection of Route 1 and 130 go north on Route 1. Pass DeVry Instituteon right and take next exit onto Squibb Drive/College Farm Road. Follow U-turn under Route 1 to stop sign. Turn leftonto College Farm Road and continue from ** in the directions above.

From Route 287: Take Route 287 to Exit 9, River Road. From exit ramp, keep right onto River Road. Follow River Roadto lights where you turn right on Route 18 over the Raritan River. Continue on Route 18 to exit for Route 1 South. Followfrom * above.

Alternate route from Route 287: From 287 take Exit 10 to Easton Avenue, Route 527. Follow Easton to end at the RRstation in New Brunswick. Turn left on Albany Street and then right at light onto George Street. Follow George throughthe city and at about the 9th light turn right onto Nichol Avenue and then left at the bookstore onto 1-way Lipman Drive.Continue straight at the curve in the road to 4-way-stop, then turn left and park in lot #90 on left next to Food Sciencebuilding. On the weekend, you can park on Lipman Drive and ignore the parking meters.

REGISTRATION FORM for NJMA EDUCATION CLASSES 2010

NAME

ADDRESS

TOWN/ZIP

PHONE

EMAIL

Please mail your check, along with this completed form, at least 7 days before the first class

for which you’re registering. Remember – classes are limited in size.

Send check, made out to “NJMA”, to:

Randy Hemminghaus, 187 Christopher Columbus Drive #1, Jersey City, NJ 07302

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FORAY AND COOKING BASICSFOR BEGINNERSby Marc Grobman

Welcome to the wonderful world of mushrooming! It’san immense area, with an abundance of resources to fillyou with knowledge. There is so much information youmay feel overwhelmed. But if you start with a focus onjust a few basics, you can quickly begin to enjoy mush-room hunting and cooking. So, here they are—sometips to get you started.

Prepare for Forays

Find yourself a wicker basket—They show up at thriftstores and at department stores such as Marshalls,Michaels, and T.J. Maxx. Your basket will serve as aconvenient, lightweight, portable “suitcase” for your finds.

Buy yourself bags —You will probably find severaldifferent species of mushrooms on a foray, and it’s bestto bag each species in separate small paper or wax paperbags before you put them in your basket. You can findsmall paper bags at supermarkets, and wax paper sand-wich bags at health food stores. For fungus’ sake, do notuse plastic bags! Fresh-picked mushrooms plopped inplastic can decompose into goo within an hour or two,due to lack of aeration.

Fortify Yourself Against Fever

Know thy enemy—Deer populations now pack NewJersey’s foray areas so densely they’ve made an ecolog-ical impact. Deer feed on the forest understory—thesmall shrubs and grasses that grow beneath trees thatprovide food and shelter for smaller animals, and inmany areas they have decimated it. All those deer alsomake it more likely that you’ll pick up the tiny black-legged ticks that often carry Lyme disease as youwander through the woods.

Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borreliaburgdorferi, which lives in small mammals, such assquirrels and mice. When a blacklegged tick bites aninfected animal, it becomes a carrier of the bacterium.If it later bites you, you can develop Lyme disease.

Large deer populations play a role in Lyme diseaseprevalence. “Deer do not get infected with thebacterium that causes Lyme disease,” the Centers forDisease Control says, but “deer are a main source of theblood adult ticks need to reproduce.” In studies onislands, the CDC reports, “removing all deer greatlyreduced the number of ticks.” Also, “studies in coastallocations found that reducing the number of deer gener-ally corresponded with decreased numbers of ticks.”

Lyme disease is serious business. Typical symptomsinclude fever, headache, fatigue, and skin rash. As atwo-time Lyme disease survivor, I can testify that thosesymptoms alone can be debilitating. But if leftuntreated, the CDC warns, the disease “can spread tojoints, the heart, and the nervous system.”

Arm yourself adequately—The CDC cautions thatinsect repellent sprays must contain at least 20% DEET(N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide) to repel ticks. But somerepellents do not meet that standard. For example, oneformulation of OFF!—the most popular insect repel-lent brand—contains only 5% DEET. Before you buy arepellent spray—available in supermarkets and drugstores—look at the label to make sure it containsenough DEET. (Contrary to the CDC’s warning, theOFF! website claims that “personal repellentscontaining at least 7% of the active ingredient DEETwill effectively repel ticks.”)

For added protection, spray a DEET-based repellent onyour ankles and midriff, and a repellent with anotherformulation, permethrin, on your clothes. Permethrinshould not be applied to the skin, but “one applicationto pants, socks, and shoes,” says the CDC, “typicallystays effective through several washings.” For moreinformation, see the CDC Web page, “Protect yourselffrom tick bites,” at:

www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/Prevention/ld_Prevention_Avoid.htm (no spaces or line breaks)

Cultivate Anti-itching Intelligence

Learn how to recognize poison ivy. The most tellingsigns: three leaves, and vines that have lots of tiny,thread-thin roots. If you don’t know how to recognizepoison ivy, ask a fellow NJMAer at your next foray topoint some out to you.

Learn Some Basic Identification

At the end of a foray, we pile our finds on tables, thensort and identify what we’ve found. The tables may beloaded with hundreds of mushrooms, with dozens ofspecies among them. Many may look alike, and you maywonder, how will I ever learn to identify all thesedifferent species? You might never learn all of thespecies, but here’s an easy way to get started: Don’t eventhink about learning them all. Just focus on learning torecognize a few mushrooms that are common and thathave distinctive features to make them easy to identify.You can start with the following:

• Amanita (Individual species can be difficult to iden-tify. But it’s fairly easy to learn how to recognize several species as members of the Amanita genus.)

• Artist’s conk, or Ganoderma applanatum

• Birch polypore, or Piptoporus betulinus

• Boletes, or sponge mushrooms (This grouping includes several “genera” [more than one genus])

• Chanterelles, or genus Cantharellus

• Chicken of the woods (Two similar-looking species, Laetiporus sulphureus, and L. cincinnatus)

• Coral fungi (This grouping of mushrooms named for their distinctive shape includes several genera.)

(more on the following page)

• Hen of the woods, Grifola frondosa

• Morels, or genus Morchella

• Puffballs (This grouping includes several different genera.)

• Tree ear, or Auricularia auricula

• Turkey tail, or Tramates versicolor; and the false turkey tail, Stereum ostrea

Mushroom Preparation and Storage

If you bring home some mushrooms that you’re goingto use within a few days, don’t wash them. Use a softbrush to remove any loose dirt, then put them in apaper bag or food container with plenty of room for air,and plop it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to usethe mushrooms.

If you’re not going to use the mushrooms within thenext week or so, you can dry or freeze them. Somemushrooms, such as morels and trumpets, are greatdried. Many other mushrooms are OK dried. And a fewmushrooms are ruined by drying. Chicken mushrooms,for example, develop a dry cardboard-like texture and asimilar taste, while oyster mushrooms lose much oftheir flavor.

Most mushrooms freeze well. To do that, slice them,sauté them in butter or olive oil, wrap and freeze. Besure to label the packages with the type of mushroomand date.

Cooking

Some people find cooking with mushrooms a simpleaffair, but I initially found it quite confusing. I wouldcome home with a particular species of mushroom, say,morels, and then wonder what I could make with it. I’dlook through recipes, trying to find one that usedmorels, and become frustrated that a pasta recipe thatfeatured morels also required other ingredients that Ididn’t have, while a promising chicken recipe called forusing oyster mushrooms instead of the morels that Ihad on hand. Often, I gave up and simply sautéed mymushrooms and put them on toast as appetizers.

Much later, I realized I was making two mistakes.

First, just because a recipe lists a certain species ofmushroom as an ingredient doesn’t mean you can’tsubstitute the species you have on hand. Most of theedible mushrooms that we find are interchangeable inrecipes. So if an appealing recipe calls for oyster mush-rooms, while you have hen of the woods, go ahead anduse them instead. One exception: Black trumpet mush-rooms have a very strong flavor, and can disrupt thetaste of mild-flavored dishes.

Second, it’s backwards to try to plan a meal or disharound mushrooms. Instead, think of mushrooms as anadditional ingredient that you can add to many dishes

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you already know how to prepare. Just avoid trying touse them in dishes that include such strong-flavoredingredients as kielbasa, scrapple, duck, ham, cabbage,or anything with mustard or ketchup, barbeque sauce,or citrus flavorings. Those strong tastes will cover upany mushroom flavor.

Some easy recipes to start with: Sautéed mushroomsmixed with mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, or abrown or white gravy to use over meat or poultry.Mushrooms also work well in many stir-fried dishesthat include snow peas or broccoli.

Sound good? Then get your foray supplies ready, andfocus on learning the basics!

BOOK REVIEW

MILK MUSHROOMSOF NORTH AMERICABY A. E. BESSETTE, D.B. HARRIS, A.R. BESSETTEreviewed by Bob Hosh

Milk Mushrooms of North America: a field identificationguide to the genus Lactarius, by Allan E. Bessette, DavidB. Harris and Arleen R. Bessette, Syracuse UniversityPress, 2009 is perhaps the first field guide to the genusLactarius published in layman’s language. Heretofore,detailed information about the genus Lactarius wouldmainly be found in scientific journal articles or mono-graphs. This volume brings the genus into the realm ofthe amateur mushroom enthusiast. The layout of thevolume can be briefly described as: Introduction, Keys,Color plates, Species and Varieties descriptions.Included is a glossary of terms, list of references, andindices of common and scientific names.

The introduction defines the genus Lactarius with its char-acteristic milk-like latex. The genus’s macro- and micro-scopic features and its relationship to the genus Russula isdescribed. The ecology and the ectomycorrhizal relation-ships between Lactarius and plants is also brieflydiscussed. The edibility of Lactarius species is commentedon along with the toxicology of certain species.

The introduction is followed by two regional keys: onedevoted to Eastern North American species and one toWestern species. Each key is further divided into groups.

250 color plates of Lactarius species follow; many ofhigh quality. Descriptions of the species are clear andeasy to comprehend.

This is a well-written comprehensive field guide to themilk mushrooms of North America. It is certainly awelcome addition to any amateur or professionalmycologist’s library.

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I STILL DON’T GET IT!(THE MYSTERY OF DNA)by Terri Layton

I still don’t get it.

Back in November 2009, NJMA offered the lecture“Introduction to Phylogenetics and DNA” by GlennBoyd. To tell the truth, whenever I hear anyone talkingabout DNA, my eyes glaze over and my mind startsshutting down…I mean BIG TIME!

In my attempt not to be discovered as a total ignoramuson the subject of DNA, I paid very close attention at thelecture for two reasons. First – I thought it would be agood idea to take lots of notes for future studies (way-over-yonder future) and second – in hopes of being ableto ask a semi-intelligent question at the end of Glenn’slecture. But I was horrified when I looked down at mynotes at the end of the lecture and found less than adozen words runged together (this is a DNA joke) in atotally non-sensical way (also a joke). My hope ofwriting an article about the lecture along with asking ahalf-baked question was totally BLASTED away.

A few months later, in early January 2010, as mymemory of the DNA lecture was fading away verynicely, I received an announcement from the EasternPenn Mushroomers (EPM) that the lecture“Introduction to Phylogentics and DNA” by none otherthan Glenn Boyd was being offered. I didn’t knowwhether to jump up and down with joy at anotherchance to learn about DNA or beat myself senseless forhaving to repeat, but I went anyway.

Dr. John Dawson, the current President of EPM and theauthor of the “Who’s In A Name” articles regularlyfeatured here in NJMA News, began his openingremarks with how he immensely enjoyed (?) Dr. Boyd’stalk last November and wanted to share his wonderfulexperience (!) with EPM members. And, of course, Iwondered if John and I had attended the same lecturelast November. As the saying goes: “One man’s medi-cine is another woman’s poison.”

So I suffered through the lecture AGAIN with a stand-ing-room-only audience. To my amazement and sheerdelight, I managed to accumulate several pages of notesand even formulated a semi-intelligent question by theend of Glenn’s lecture. Wow, the mind is a very strangething – how you don’t get it at all at first, then you stilldon’t get it all…

Here is what I deduced from Glenn’s talk:

Just a minute folks! Before I start explaining the DNAstuff, a few ground rules: Since I am fully aware of myshortcomings on scientific stuff, I do not want to hearfrom you about (1) my lack of technical understanding,and (2) that I am wrong about something. This article is

not intended to educate members on DNA stuff. Focusof this article will be discussed later.

So here is my version of DNA stuff (you can skip thispart if you would like):

DNA is the secret of life that means that you will lookand act like someone in your family (usually ones youdon’t really like). DNA is a long chain of moleculesconsisting of A, C, G, and T. Some of these will hook upreadily and others will not hook up at all. DNA encodesthe information needed to build and regulate proteins.Structure of DNA is a double helix (twisted ladder)whose rungs are pairs of nucleotide basics. Genesrepresent a particular section of DNA. (Are you withme so far?)

Then there are proteins (made of amino acids – humanshave about 20 essential amino acids). Then there arecodons (same as amino acids) and operons. If you arelactose intolerant, that means you don’t have the rightoperons. (I am really lost!)

Now the fun begins: take a small piece of a mushroomand put it in a little vial and shake it up real good andput it in a machine that looks like a cash register andthen you get a sequence of A, C, G, and T in a randomorder. Apparently thesecash-register-lookingthings are pretty expen-sive, so just Google“BLAST” (I kid you not) ifyou don’t want to spendthe money.

Once you access BLAST,just type in any sequenceyou have lying aroundyour house. or better yet ,

The DNA Ladder

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use a t-shirt with the Boletus edulis DNA sequenceprinted on it (Why would anyone have such t-shirt?Why ask why? Let us proceed!). Then the program willspit out possible matches depending on how much ofthe sequence you type in or how accurately you typedthem in. It is entirely possible that you could type in Cinstead of G if you’ve washed the shirt too many times.So you could get a result like Paxillus instead of Boletus.Does this sound like a BLAST to you?

Furthermore, DNA mutation is sort of like a chainletter. What? Yes. Let me explain:

If a chain letter was sent out to 33 people and subse-quently these 33 people sent out four more each and soon (the chain letter works because some believe thatbreaking the chain brings bad luck), mutation willinevitably occur as people re-type letters or repeatedcopying would render the original letter illegible. So aword like “life” would become “wife” (No joke here).

Anyway, once upon a time, there was an animal called“Quagea” in South Africa. This animal looked like ahorse and a zebra and was believed to be extinct. Mindyou, truly extinct if this was a real species, but notextinct if it was a mutation of zebra/horse. In mycolog-ical terms, if we stumble upon a mushroom that looksdifferent, we can probably figure out if it’s a new speciesor just a mutation of existing species using the currenttechnology. (Easy huh?)

Finally, my half-baked question is: So what? Where’s thepractical application of DNA sequencing/mutation?What can we do with this to help our ecosystem? Well,Dr. Boyd explained that scientists were able to figureout the dreaded white nose fungus on bats with thelatest technology, so we should be able to help the bats.That’s good enough for me!

I hope all of us have learned something today. No, Idon’t mean the DNA stuff. All I am saying is that we cantake any experience and turn it into a BLAST if we just

put in some humor and keep an open mind. I certainlyenjoyed writing about something I know nothing about.I heard someone say once “the process is the fruition”. Ithink I am beginning to believe that statement. Happymushrooming to all!

The Quagua

From Morristown:

Travel SOUTH on Route 287 to Exit 22. Take Route206 NORTH. Travel 4 miles to Pottersville Road(Somerset County 512). Turn left onto PottersvilleRoad and proceed on Pottersville Road towardPottersville for 1/2 mile. Turn RIGHT onto Lisk HillRoad and continue for 1/10 of a mile and come to a"T". Turn RIGHT and continue for 3/10 of a mile. Youwill come to a "Y".Turn LEFT at the "Y" onto LongviewRoad. The entrance to Willowwood Arboretum will be1/2 mile from the "Y" intersection on the LEFT side ofthe road. Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Centerwill be 1 mile from the "Y" intersection on the LEFTside of the road.

From Long Valley/Chester area:

Take Route 24 to Route 206 SOUTH. Travel 4.7 milesto Pottersville Road (Somerset County 512). TurnRIGHT onto Pottersville Road and follow the direct-lons above.

From the South:

Travelling North: Take Exit 22B. Take Route 206NORTH. Travel 4 miles to Pottersville Road (SomersetCounty 512). Turn LEFT onto Pottersville Road afollow the directions above.

DIRECTIONS TOTHE WILLOWWOOD ARBORETUM

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WHO’S IN A NAME?Boletus frostii and Boletellus russelliiby John Dawson (eighteenth in a series)

Boletus frostii Russell and Boletellus russellii (Frost)Gilbert are two edible boletes that each have deeplyridged, red stipes. And as the authorities cited for theirnames indicate, the two species are also reciprocalhonorifics: Boletus frostii was named by John LewisRussell, a Unitarian minister in Salem, Massachusetts,for his friend Charles Christopher Frost, a shoemaker inBrattleboro, Vermont; and Frost returned the favor bynaming Boletus russellii after Russell. Both men wereamateur naturalists, whose mid-nineteenth-centurycollections of fungi helped to advance the study ofmycology in America.

Frost was born November 11, 1805 in Brattleboro, anddied there March 16, 1880. His father James had estab-lished the first shoemaker’s shop in Brattleboro, andCharles practiced that trade throughout his life. Hemaintained correspondence with many of the leadingnaturalists of his day, both in the U.S. and Europe, buthe himself had no pretensions: He declined varioushonors and offers of professorships, saying simply that“Whatever I have acquired of science...came throughsearch for health and mental entertainment; science isnot my profession — shoemaking is.”

Frost dropped out of school at age fifteen, after havingbeen struck hard by a ruler wielded by an authoritarianteacher. Thereafter he was entirely self-educated. Buthe read tirelessly and widely, including (besides variousbotanical works) texts on geology, meteorology, chem-istry, physics, mathematics, and entomology. Along theway, he also taught himself to read Latin, French andGerman. He was evidently an extremely methodicalperson. Indeed, according to the obituary memoir ofhim published in the journal Mycologia1:

He occupied the same store for forty-nine years, and accu-mulated, by thrift and good judgment, a considerablefortune; but, from a very early period, he maintained fixeddaily hours for study. He regularly allowed himself a halfhour for dinner, and [the interval] from half past twelve tillone P.M. He as regularly spent in the little attic study. Hefrequently went into the woods in the fresh, earlymorning, before business hours, and often devoted hisevenings to some botanical work. Besides these hours forthe study of specimens, he read much in his store, andseveral of the inhabitants of Brattleboro have given...exactly the same reminiscence of him, viz.: that whencustomers called at his place of business, he almost invari-ably laid down a book in order to wait on them, and took itup again immediately on finishing. Every spare momentseemed to have been utilized for study.

Frost reportedly took up field botanical studies to combat“a severe dyspeptic disorder” — a regimen that “speedilyaltered [his] health for the better”. Initially interested inflowers, he soon began collecting ferns, mosses and liver-worts as well, and then turned to fungi. He publishedlittle, apart from a Catalogue of Plants Growing withoutCultivation within Thirty Miles of Amherst College, whichwas printed in Amherst in 1875 under the co-authorshipof Edward Tuckerman. But he collected assiduously, andwas responsible for the description of some sixty newfungal species, including twenty boletes, nine Russulas,nine Lactarii, and three Clavarias.

As for Russell, he was born in Salem on December 2,1808 and died there on June 7, 1873. He earned an A.B.degree from Harvard in 1828 and a divinity degreethere three years later. He served as a Unitarian minis-ter in various places, including Fishkill, NY, Pittsburgh,PA, Burlington, VT and Kennebunk, ME, beforereturning to Salem in 1853, where he remained the restof his life. In 1833 he became Professor of Botany andHorticultural Physiology at the MassachusettsHorticultural Society and that same year was appointedLibrarian and Cabinet Keeper of the Essex CountyHistorical Society. He was especially interested inlichens, and bequeathed his botanical library to theMassachusetts Horticultural Society. A collection of hisdrawings, including some of insects and shells in addi-tion to botanical subjects, is preserved in the Archivesof the Gray Herbarium at Harvard, from whose findingaid the biographical details above were excerpted.

Photographs of both Frost and Russell are among theWisconsin Historical Images available for purchasefrom the Wisconsin Historical Society. They can beviewed online at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org .

1 William R. Dudley, “Charles Christopher Frost”, Mycologia 2:10 (Oct. 1886), pp. 114– 118, from which the quotations and most of the information given here is taken.

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NJMA COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND MEMBERS FOR 2010

Archives/Historian Bob Peabody

Book sales Herb Pohl

Culinary (dinner group) Jim Richards, Bob Hosh

Cultivation Gene Varney, John Horvath, Melanie Spock

Dyeing Ursula Pohl, Viola Spock, Melanie Spock

Education Dorothy Smullen, Gene Varney, Nina Burghardt

Forays Manager - Bob Hosh, Nina BurghardtRecorder - John BurghardtNew Foray Sites - Bob Hosh, Nina Burghardt, Bob Peabody

Fungus Fest Nina Burghardt, Terri Layton

Hospitality Nina Burghardt

Holiday Party Rhoda Roper, Bob Hosh

Victor Gambino Foray Terri Layton

Library Bob Hosh, Herb Pohl

Mycoaesthetics Jim Richards

Mycophagy Bob Hosh, Jim Richards

NAMA representative Ursula Pohl

NEMF representative Mike Rubin, Dorothy Smullen

New Members Jim Barg, Bob Hosh, Jim Richards

Newsletter Editor - Jim Richards Art Director - Jim Barg Circulation - Mike Rubin & Patrick Bernardo Alex Adams, Marcus Morreale, Bob Hosh,Herb Pohl, Terri Layton

Nomination Glenn Boyd, Rhoda Roper, Nina Burghardt

Photography Jim Barg, Jim Richards

Public Outreach Terri Layton, Dorothy Smullen, Nina Burhardt,Patrick Bernardo, Randy Hemminghaus, Jim Barg

Ray Fatto Scholarship Chair - Mike Rubin, Treasurer - Bob Peabody,Gene Varney, Dorothy Smullen, Glenn Boyd

Slide Library Dorothy Smullen, Jim Barg

Sunshine Ursula Pohl, Nina Burghardt

Taxonomy Gene Varney, Dorothy Smullen, Glenn Boyd

Toxicology Rod Tulloss, Mike Rubin

Web Site Bob Hosh, Jim Barg

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BASIDIOMYCETES

AgaricaceaeChocolate brown spore print; free gills; in woods or field on soil or debris.Agaricus arvensis 1Agaricus silvaticus 2

Agaricus sp. 2Cystoderma amianthinum v. rugosoreticulatum 1

AmanitaceaeWhite spore print; free gills (mostly); usually with annulus, always with universal veil which becomes a volva or atleast a bulbous base; mycorrhizalAmanita abrupta 2Amanita aestivalis 1Amanita amerirubescens 11Amanita banningiana 1Amanita bisporigera 11Amanita brunnescens v. brunnescens 10Amanita brunnescens v. pallida 4Amanita canescens 1Amanita ceciliae 3Amanita citrina v. lavendula 4Amanita citrina v. citrina 5Amanita cokeri 1Amanita crenulata 2Amanita daucipes 1Amanita dulciarii 1Amanita farinosa 1Amanita flavoconia 14Amanita flavorubens 1

Amanita flavorubescens 1Amanita fulva 9Amanita longipes 1Amanita morrisii 2Amanita muscaria v. formosa 6Amanita muscaria v. persicana 1 newAmanita onusta 1Amanita pantherina v. velatipes 1Amanita phalloides 1Amanita rhopalopus 2Amanita sinicoflava 1Amanita sp. 5Amanita submaculata (= A. sp. 18) 1Amanita xanthomitra 1Amanita subcokeri 1 newAmanita vaginata v. vaginata 4Amanita vansantiana 2Amanita volvata 1

LeptiotaceaeWhite spore print; free gills; on ground or debrisLepiota cortinarius 1 newLepiota naucina 1

Macrolepiota procera 1

BolbitiaceaeRusty brown to earth brown spore print; gills attached; decomposer on soil or woodConocybe lactea 1 Conocybe tenera 1 new

CoprinaceaeBrown/black spore print; attached gills; decomposer, on litter or woodCoprinus sp. 1Leucocoprinus cepestipes 1 new

Psathyrella candolleana 1Psathyrella piluliformis 1

CortinariaceaeOrange-rusty-yellow/ brown spore print; gills attached; cob webby cortina; mycorrhizal or decomposersCortinarius alboviolaceus 3Cortinarius armillatus 1Cortinarius bolaris 1

Cortinarius cf. caesiocanescens 1 newCortinarius camphoratus 1 newCortinarius caperatus, 4 (continues on next page)

SPECIES LIST FROM NJMA FORAYS - 2009**see related article in NJMA News issue #40-1 (January-February 2010)

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Cortinarius corrugatus 2Cortinarius cf. croceifolius 1 newCortinarius glandicolor 1 newCortinarius iodes 11Cortinarius lilacinus 2Cortinarius mucosus 2Cortinarius obtusus 1 newCortinarius sanguineus 1

Cortinarius semisanguineus 6Cortinarius sp. 8Galerina tibiicystis 1Gymnopilus penetrans 3Gymnopilus spectabilis 2Hebeloma sp. 1Inocybe sp. 4

CrepidotaceaeBrown spore print; usually stalkless cap with gills; on wood; decomposers.Crepidotus applanatus 3Crepidotus occidentalis 1

Crepidotus sp. 1

HygrophoraceaeWhite spore print; waxy, often brightly colored, gills; mycorrhizalHygrophorus borealis 1Hygrophorus cantharellus 6Hygrophorus coccineus 1Hygrophorus conicus v conicus 5Hygrophorus cf. cremicolor 1 newHygrophorus flavescens 2

Hygrophorus hypothejus 1Hygrophorus laetus 1Hygrophorus marginatus v. marginatus 3Hygrophorus niveus 2Hygrophorus odoratus 1 newHygrophorus sp. 4

PluteaceaePink spore print; free gills; on woodPluteus cervinus 6Pluteus petasatus 1

Pluteus sp. 2

RhodophyllaceaePink spore print; attached gills; usually on the ground.Clitopilus prunulus 5Entoloma abortivum 1Entoloma alboumbonatum 1Entoloma clypeatum 1Entoloma farlowii 1 newEntoloma murrayi 3

Entoloma porphyrophaeum 1Entoloma parasiticum 1 newEntoloma salmoneum 5 Entoloma strictipes 2Leptonia serrulata v. serrulata 2Leptonia sp. 1

RussulaceaeLactariusSpore print white to buff or yellow; gills attached; flesh crisp, brittle, exuding latex when broken; gills attached;on the ground, mycorrhizal.Lactarius aquifluus 4Lactarius argillaceifolius 1Lactarius camphoratus 7Lactarius chelidonium 3Lactarius chrysorheus 10Lactarius corrugis 7Lactarius croceus 2Lactarius deceptivus 7

Lactarius deliciosus v. deliciosus 1Lactarius deterrimus 1Lactarius fumosus 1Lactarius griseus 1Lactarius hygrophoroides 4Lactarius imperceptus 1Lactarius lignyotus v. lignyotus 6Lactarius paradoxus 3 (continues on next page)

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Lactarius peckii 2Lactarius piperatus v. glaucescens 1Lactarius piperatus v. piperatus 5Lactarius quietus v. incanus 2Lactarius rufus 1Lactarius sp. 4Lactarius subdulcis 1 Lactarius subpurpureus 1

Lactarius subvellereus v. subvellereus 1Lactarius subvernalis v. cokeri 1Lactarius theiogalus 1Lactarius thyinos 1Lactarius torminosus v. torminosus 1Lactarius vellereus 1Lactarius volemus v. volemus 8

RussulaSpore print white to yellow; gills free or attached; gills, cap brittle; on the ground, mycorrhizal.Russula bicolor 1Russula brevipes v. brevipes 7Russula claroflava 2Russula compacta 10Russula cremeirosea 1Russula crustosa 7Russula dissimulans 5Russula heterophylla 1Russula laurocerasi 2Russula lilacea 1Russula mariae 7Russula modesta 1Russula nigricans 1

Russula ochroleucoides 3Russula paludosa 1Russula parvovirescens 3Russula perlactea 3Russula redolens 2Russula silvicola 3Russula sp. 7Russula subpunctata 1Russula variata 10Russula ventricosipes 4Russula veternosa 1Russula vinacea 1Russula virescens 1

StrophariaceaeViolaceous to rusty brown spore print; gills attached; usually decomposer on wood.Hypholoma sublateritium 2Pholiota squarrosoides 1

Stropharia rugosoannulata 2Stropharia sp.1

TricholomataceaeWhite spore print; attached gills; mycorrhizal or saprophytic; large artificial family of white-spored genera thatdon’t fit elsewhere.Armillaria mellea 3Armillaria ostoyae 1Callistosporium purpureomarginatum 1Clitocybe clavipes 2Clitocybe odora 3Clitocybe subconnexa 1Collybia cookei 1Cyptotrama chrysopeplum 1Gerronema strombodes 1Gymnopus dryophilus 1Gymnopus subnudus 1Hohenbuehelia sp. 1Laccaria amethystina 2Laccaria bicolor 3Laccaria laccata 7Laccaria laccata v. pallidifolia 2

Laccaria ochropurpurea 6Laccaria ohiensis 1Laccaria proxima 1Laccaria sp. 1Laccaria trullisata 3Lentinellus ursinus 1Lepista nuda 2Leucopaxillus albissimus 1Lyophyllum connatum 1Marasmiellus nigripes 2Marasmiellus opacus 1Marasmiellus praeacutus 1Marasmius copelandii v. olidus 1Marasmius delectans 1Marasmius pulcherripes 1Marasmius rotula 3 (continues on next page)

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Marasmius scorodonius 1Marasmius siccus 1Marasmius sp. 1Marasmius strictipes 1Marasmius sullivantii 1Megacollybia platyphylla 10Melanoleuca alboflavida 1Mycena citrinomarginata 1 newMycena corticola 1Mycena haematopus 2Mycena leaiana 1Mycena luteopallens 1Mycena osmundicola 1 newMycena pura 1Mycena rosella 1 newMycena sanguinolenta 1Mycena sp. 3Mycena subcaerulea 1Mycena thujina 1 newPanellus stipticus 12Pleurotus ostreatus 6Rhodocollybia butyracea 4 Rhodocollybia maculata v. maculata 1

Rickenella fibula 1Tricholoma aestuans 1 newTricholoma caligatum 1Tricholoma flavovirens 2Tricholoma fumosoluteum 1Tricholoma imbricatum 1Tricholoma myomyces 1 newTricholoma odorum 1Tricholoma pardinum 1Tricholoma pessundatum 1Tricholoma portentosum 1Tricholoma sejunctum 1Tricholoma subluteum 1Tricholoma vaccinum 1 newTricholoma sp. 1Tricholomopsis decora 2Tricholomopsis rutilans 1Tricholomopsis sulphureoides 1Xeromphalina kauffmanii 2Xerula furfuracea 8Xerula megalospora 2Xerula radicata 1

ChanterellesSpore-bearing surface consists of blunt ridges - not gills - which are usually forked.Cantharellus cibarius 8Cantharellus cinnabarinus 12Cantharellus ignicolor 6Cantharellus lateritius 6Cantharellus minor 4

Cantharellus tubaeformis 1Chroogomphus vinicolor 3Craterellus cornucopioides 1Craterellus fallax 10Gomphus floccosus 2

BoletesShaped like agarics, but have pores not gills; pores peel off; on the ground, mycorrhizal.Austroboletus betula 1Boletus auripes 1Boletus auriporus 1Boletus badius 2Boletus bicolor v. bicolor 4Boletus edulis v. edulis 3Boletus ferrugineus 1Boletus frostii 2Boletus gracilis 2Boletus hortonii 3Boletus illudens 1Boletus innixus 1Boletus longicurvipes 3Boletus luridiformis 1 new

Boletus nobilis 1Boletus pallidus 2Boletus pallidoroseus 1 newBoletus parasiticus 1Boletus pseudosensibilis 1Boletellus russellii 1Boletus sensibilis 1Boletus sp. 1Boletus subglabripes 3Boletus subluridellus 1Boletus subvelutipes 5Boletus vermiculosoides 3Boletus viscidcorrugis 1 newGyrodon merulioides 2 (continues on next page)

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Gyroporus castaneus 9Gyroporus subalbellus 1Leccinum albellum 3Leccinum aurantiacum 4Leccinum griseum 1Leccinum insigne 1Leccinum oxydabile 1Leccinum rugosiceps 1Leccinum scabrum 4Leccinum snellii 1Leccinum sp. 1Paxillus atrotomentosus 7Paxillus involutus 1Phylloporus foliiporus 1Phylloporus rhodoxanthus 8Pulveroboletus ravenelii 1Strobilomyces confusus 4Strobilomyces dryophilus 1 newStrobilomyces strobilaceus 9Suillus americanus 4

Suillus brevipes 1Suillus decipiens 1Suillus granulatus 4Suillus luteus 1Suillus pictus 4Suillus salmonicolor 4Tylopilus alboater 1Tylopilus badiceps 1Tylopilus ballouii 2Tylopilus chromapes 1Tylopilus felleus 10Tylopilus ferrugineus 1Tylopilus indecisus 4Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus 4Tylopilus rhodoconius 1 newTylopilus rubrobrunneus 3Tylopilus violatinctus 3 newXanthoconium affine 4Xanthoconium separans 3

Polypores and Polypore-like FungiPore surface tough or leathery; pores not easily separated from flesh; fruitbodies with or without stalks; most aredecomposers or parasites.Albatrellus caeruleoporus 2Cerrena unicolor 2Coltricia cinnamomea 6Coltricia montagnei 1Coltricia perennis 1Daedalea quercina 5Daedaleopsis confragosa 9Favolus alveolaris 8Fistulina hepatica 4Fomes fomentarius 2Fomitopsis spraguei, 2Ganoderma applanatum 6Ganoderma lucidum 8Ganoderma tsugae 4Gloeoporus dichrous 3Grifola frondosa 2Inonotus circinatus 1Inonotus dryadeus 2Inonotus hispidus 4Inonotus tomentosus 1Laetiporus cincinnatus 1Laetiporus sulphureus 8Lenzites betulinus 6Lenzites elegans 8

Meripilus sumstinei 5Oligoporus fragilis 1Oxyporus populinus 1Phaeolus schweinitzii 4Phellinus gilvus 4Phellinus ignarius 1Phellinus robineae 1Piptoporus betulinus 5Polyporus arcularius 1Polyporus badius 1Polyporus brumalis 1Polyporus elegans 8Polyporus squamosus 2Poronidulus conchifer 1Postia caesia 1Pycnoporus cinnabarinus 2Sparassis crispa 1Spongipellis pachyodon 1Trametes ochracea 1Trametes pubescens 1Trametes versicolor 11Trametes sp. 1Trichaptum biforme 15Tyromyces chioneus 11

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Split Gill FungiSchizophyllum commune 7

Gasteromycetes (Sack Fungi)Spore-bearing surface enclosed in sack, not exposed, before spores are mature.PuffballsCalostoma cinnabarina 3Calvatia cyathiformis 1Calvatia gigantea 1Lycoperdon candidum 1 Lycoperdon molle 1Lycoperdon perlatum 8Lycoperdon pyriforme 2Lycoperdon sp. 1Pisolithus tinctorius 1Scleroderma areolatum 3Scleroderma cepa 2Scleroderma citrinum 10Scleroderma polyrhizon 4

Bird’s nestsCrucibulum laeve 2Cyathus striatus 3

EarthstarsAstraeus hygrometricus 1Geastrum triplex 1

StinkhornsDictyophora duplicata 1 newMutinus caninus 1Mutinus ravenelii 1 newPhallogaster saccatus 1

Rhizopogons (not really gasteromycetes)Rhizopogon cf. parksii 1Rhizopogon sp. 4Rhopalogaster transversarium 1

Coral FungiSpores on upright branches which resemble sea coral; on ground or wood; decomposer or mycorrhizal.Artomyces pyxidata 6Clavulinopsis aurantio-cinnabarina 2Clavaria fumosa 1Clavaria vermicularis 1Clavariadelphus pistillaris 1Clavulina amethystina 2

Clavulina cinerea 2Clavaria cristata 6Clavulinopsis fusiformis 9Ramaria sp. 3Ramaria stricta 1

Tooth FungiSpore-bearing surface consists of spines or teeth.Bankera fulgineoalba 1 newHydnellum concrescens 2Hydnellum scrobiculatum 2Hydnellum sp. 1Hydnellum spongiosipes 3

Hydum repandum v repandum 5Hydnum sp. 1Hydnum umbilicatum 2Mycorraphium adustum 1Sarcodon scabrosus 1

Crust FungiSpreading leathery sheets or smears on wood; spore-bearing surface usually smooth, sometimes with warts, foldsor teeth; light colored spores; usually decomposers.Hydnochaete olivacea 5Hymenochaete rubiginosa 2Irpex lacteus 2Phlebia incarnata 1

Schizopora paradoxa 4Stereum complicatum 14Stereum ostrea 13 Stereum striatum 2 (continues on next page)

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Thelephora caryophyllea 1 newThelephora sp. 1Thelephora terrestris 3

Thelephora vialis 1Xylobolus frustulatus 2

Jelly FungiSpecies in this group are gelatinous or jelly-like, though some resemble corals.Calocera cornea 2Dacrymyces palmatus 1Exidia sp. 1

Tremella mesenterica 5Tremellodendron pallidum 6Tremellodendron sp. 1

ASCOMYCETES

Ascomycota - DiscomycetesBulgaria inquinans 1Chlorociboria aeruginascens 6Galiella rufa 3Helvella crispa 1Helvella elastica 1Helvella villosa 1 newHelvella sp. 1Leotia lubrica 9Leotia viscosa 3Microglossum rufum 1

Mollisia sp.1Morchella elata 1Morchella semilibera 1Otidea sp. 1Peziza praetervisa 1Peziza vesiculosa 1 newSarcoscypha occidentalis 1Scutellinia scutellata 3Trichoglossum hirsutum 1

Ascomycota - PyrenomycetesCordyceps ophioglossoides 1Daldinia concentrica 2Diatrype sp. 1Hypocrea avellanea 1Hypomyces aurantius 1Hypomyces chrysospermus 5Hypomyces hyalinus 5Hypomyces lactifluorum 1

Hypomyces lateritius 1 newHypomyces luteovirens 1Hypomyces ochraceus 1Hypomyces sp. 1Hypoxylon sp. 1Neolecta irregularis 1Phaeocalicium polyporaeum 1Xylaria polymorpha 7

MYXOMYCETES (Traditional)

Myxomycota - MyxomycetesArcyria cinerea 1Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa 1Cribraria cancellata 1 newFuligo septica 2Hemitrichia sp. 1

Lycogala epidendrum 3Metatrichia vesparium 2Physarum viride 1Stemonitis axifera 1Tubifera ferruginosa 1

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In this issue:

• 2010 EDUCATION CLASSES • BASICS FOR BEGINNERS • WHO’S IN A NAME - PART 18• SHE STILL DOESN’T GET IT!• NEMF REGISTRATION UPDATE• NJMA COMMITTEES 2010• SPECIES LIST - 2009 FORAYS• 2010 MEMBERS, PT. 1• PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE• LOCATIONS FOR MORELS

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about mushrooms.

Trametes hirsuta

PHOTO BY TERRI LAYTON

I am thin and hairy (Trametes means “one who is thin”; hirsuta means“hairy with rather coarse, erect or ascending hairs”), but I am much,

much bigger and hairier than Turkey tails (Trametes versicolor).This fungus is important in natural ecosystems as a decomposer

of wood and belongs in phylum Basidiomycota.

I am thin and hairy (Trametes means “one who is thin”; hirsuta means“hairy with rather coarse, erect or ascending hairs”), but I am much,

much bigger and hairier than Turkey tails (Trametes versicolor).This fungus is important in natural ecosystems as a decomposer

of wood and belongs in phylum Basidiomycota.

Descriptions from Gary Emberger and Tom Volk