Deadly Look-alike Little Brown Jobs

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Deadly Look-alike LBJs

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Deadly Lawn Galerina

-- watch out for this -- note how similar its description is to some of the desired mushrooms.
Careful discrimination required!
Audubon plate 39 p. 622
Galerina venenata Small mushroom with reddish-brown cap, fading to buff, in lawns.
CAP:
3/8 - 1 3/8" wide
convex
becoming flat or with depressed center and somewhat torn
arched margin
moist
smooth
reddish-brown to cinnamon-brown
fading to dingy yellowish-white to pinkish-buff
flesh moderately thick
odor mealy
taste bitter
Gills:
attached
nearly distant
broad
yellowish-brown becoming cinnamon brown
Spore Print:
8-11 x 5-6.5 microns oval
roughened with smooth pool-like depression at base
color rust
Stem:
1 1/4 - 1 5/8" short 1/8 -1/4" thick
enlarging somewhat toward base
brownish
smooth
withy cottony white mycelium about base
Veil:
Partial veil leaving a small thin ring pressed against upper stalk
Season:
November - January
Habit:
In Lawns
Range:
Washington and Oregon
Look Alikes:
Galerina Autumnalis and Galerina marginata both deadly, grow on decaying wood
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DEADLY GALERINA:

(looks similar to some psilocybin mushrooms)
Audubon plate 228 page 620 Galerina autumnalis
Spore print is rust!
Book#5 has a photo of this growing side by side with P.Stuntzii
CAP:
1-2 1/2" wide
convex, becoming flat, or with slight nob
margin transluscent
radially lined when moist
sticky
dark brown to ochre-tawny
unevenly fading to yellowish or buff
Gills:
attached
close
broad
yellowish, becoming rust
Spore Print:
8.5-10.5x5-6.5 microns elliptical
roughened, with smooth depression
spore print rust.
Stem:
1-4" tall x 1/8"-3/8" thick
sometimes enlarging toward base
hollow
somewhat longitudinally lined
off-white above, brownish to blackish base
lower stalk and base with dense white mycleium threads
Veil:
partial veil membranous
white
leaving an evanescent ring on upper stalk
Habit: Scattered to abundant on well-decayed logs
Season: October -November, May-June
Range: Throughout N. America
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DEADLY CORT:

(looks vaguely similar to some psilocybin mushrooms)
Audubon plate 298 page 615 cortinarius gentilis
Deep orange-brown cap and stalk with remnants of yellow veil.
Abundant under conifers. Widespread.
Spore print is rust!
Cap:
1-2" wide
conical, becoming bell shaped to broadly knobbed
moist
smooth
orange to yellow-brown ---> becoming rust
Gills:
attached
almost distant
broad
yellowish brown ---> becoming rust
Spore Print:
7-9x 5.5-7 microns, oval, minutely roughened, browinsh
spore print rust
Stem:
1-3"tall 1/8 - 1/4" thick
yellow to orange-brown
Veil:
universal veil yellow, evanenscent
partial veil cobwebby, bright yellow
leaving a faint zone on the stalk
Habit:
abundant under conifers
Season:
July-August Rockies, September-Octobe in North
Range:
Widespread in N. America
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DEADLY CONOCYBE:

(looks similar to some psilocybin mushrooms)
Conocybe filaris Also Known As Pholiotina filaris
Audubon plate 81 page 559 (Also known as "ringed conocybe")
Spore print is cinnamon-brown!
Has yellowish ring on stalk!
Cap:
1/4 - 1" conical to convex or flat, often with a central knob
moist to dry
smooth
tawny brown
Gills:
notched
close
broad
off-white --> becoming rust
Spore Print:
7.5-9x4-5 microns, elliptical, smooth, with pore at the tip
Spore print is cinnamon-brown!
Stem:
3/8-1 5/8" short 1/32- 1/16th thin
yellow orange to brown
Veil:
partial veil forms membranous, movable central ring on stalk
Habit:
Scattered to numerous, in grass, moss, wood chips.
Season:
August to October
Range:
Widely distributed in N. America

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