Day 27: I've just come home from spending a very interesting afternoon on a "mushroom walk" sponsored by the Nisqually Land Trust with Prof. E. C. Cline from UW Tacoma. We found a lot of LBMs ("little brown mushrooms"), identified as such by E. C. Yep, you got that right. Professor Cline did her best to put them in the right genus, but she also said "I don't know" almost as often as I do. Even so, the walk was very educational, and now I know that Xeromphalinas are fairly easy to place in the correct genus because of their very thin and very stiff stipe. That stem is almost as rigid as a twig (branch) of the same diameter! A few other specimens will appear in my posts over the next few days, and will include a delightful slime mold which for me was the highlight of the day.
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