Newtown Common
Sat 27 Oct 2007
Field event ID HF0723
OS Grid areas: SU4763
New Records:
New to Hampshire: Lepiota cortinarius.
Report: Several members of the Thames Valley group joined the Hampshire Group for joint foray, one of several arranged for this year. The foray started with an interesting lepiota in excellent condition only a few feet from the carpark. After long discussion about the category of spore shape and hence which bit of the key to use it was finally decided at the lunch after Crab wood that the best name was Lepiota cortinarius var. cortinarius. Not a common species but recorded in all the counties surrounding Hampshire. Eric took away his collection of Russula and was puzzled to find one that keyed out to Russula turci but did not look at all like the picture! Geoffrey Kibby confirmed this is often the case "R. Turci as it gets older loses some of its colour and gradually turns a muddier brownish-purple or even blackish. Characteristic of the species is the tendency to have a centrally marked region with a much paler, rougher marginal zone". This has only been found once before by the group when Graham Mattock found it in 1997 at Denny.
Just before lunch Jacquey found a wonderful display of Otidia onotica (Hare's Ear) with it's pastel pink inside hymenial surface. It was another good day for a nostril challenge with the coal gas smell of Tricholoma sulphureum (Sulphur Knight), chicken coup smell of Clitocybe phaeophthalma (Chicken Run Funnel), which incidentally has diagnostic swellings of the hyphae in the cap cuticle making it an easy clitocybe to confirm for once, and the pelargonium smell of Cortinarius paleaceus (Pelargonium webcap). Once again, under the same chestnut tree, was a small fruitbody of Hydnellum spongiosipes (Velvet tooth) holding on to this site.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita excelsa var. spissa, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Arcyria denudata, Armillaria mellea, Ascocoryne cylichnium, Baeospora myosura, Bjerkandera adusta, Bolbitius titubans var. titubans, Boletus badius, Boletus edulis, Boletus ferrugineus, Boletus luridiformis var. luridiformis, Calocera cornea, Calocera viscosa, Cantharellus cibarius, Cantharellus tubaeformis, Claviceps purpurea var. purpurea, Clitocybe geotropa, Clitocybe geotropa, Clitocybe nebularis, Clitocybe phaeophthalma, Cortinarius bolaris, Cortinarius flexipes var. flabellus, Cortinarius hemitrichus, Cortinarius sanguineus, Cortinarius semisanguineus, Crepidotus luteolus, Crepidotus variabilis, Crepidotus versutus, Cudoniella acicularis, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Daldinia concentrica, Exidia nucleata, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Gymnopilus penetrans, Gymnopus confluens, Gymnopus dryophilus, Gymnopus peronatus, Hemimycena tortuosa, Heterobasidion annosum, Hydnellum spongiosipes, Hygrocybe virginea var. virginea, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hyphodontia barba-jovis, Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina, Kuehneromyces mutabilis, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius blennius, Lactarius quietus, Lactarius tabidus, Lactarius torminosus, Lactarius turpis, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum variicolor, Lepiota cortinarius var. cortinarius, Lepista flaccida, Lepista nuda, Lycoperdon perlatum, Mensularia radiata, Mycena aetites, Mycena crocata, Mycena epipterygia, Mycena galericulata, Mycena galopus var. galopus, Mycena haematopus, Mycena leptocephala, Mycena pura, Mycena rosea, Naucoria melinoides, Otidea onotica, Oudemansiella mucida, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Phaeolus schweinitzii, Phlebia tremellosa, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus chrysophaeus, Pluteus phlebophorus, Postia subcaesia, Psathyrella spadicea, Radulomyces confluens, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rhodocollybia maculata, Rhytisma acerinum, Rickenella fibula, Russula atropurpurea, Russula betularum, Russula brunneoviolacea, Russula fellea, Russula nigricans, Russula nobilis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula silvestris, Russula turci, Russula versicolor, Russula xerampelina, Scleroderma citrinum, Stereum gausapatum, Suillus bovinus, Tomentellopsis echinospora, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Tricholoma cingulatum, Tricholoma fulvum, Tricholoma scalpturatum, Tricholoma sulphureum var. sulphureum, Vuilleminia coryli, Xylaria hypoxylon