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Mid Hudson Myco-News an Occasional Publication of the Mid Hudson Mycological Association MID HUDSON MYCO-NEWS AN OCCASIONAL PUBLICATION OF THE MID HUDSON MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Volume 3, Issue 2……………………………………............................................…………………February 2007 2007 Mushroom Calendars Sold Out – Photo Contest Suggested for Next Year By David Work Many thanks again to those folks who contributed photos for the 2007 MHMA Mushroom Calendar and thanks to all those folks who bought them, too! In its second year, the calendar attracted some attention from members of other clubs in the Northeast besides our own. We received numerous orders from mycolphiles from Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticuit as well as from our more southerly New Yorker neighbors. Last year we did not sell all of the calendars we produced, so it was refreshing to have so much interest from all over the NortheastTo those of you who were unable to get one this year, sign up early next year and we’ll adjust the number that we order! Speaking of next year, several people suggested we hold an MHMA Photo Contest this year, the winners of which would appear in the next calendar. It sounds great to me if there are people who will step up to do the judging and administration of the contest. It could be a lot of fun! Anyone interested in helping get it together, please contact me! Young Parasol Mushrooms - Lepiota procera – Hurley, NY Several Translations of the same Japanese Haiku as told by John Cage Audio of Cage’s presentation available at www.ubu.com/sound/dial.html INSIDE THIS ISSUE Pine mushroom ignorance Leaf of tree 1 Adhesiveness (literal translation) Mushroom Calendars/Photo contest The leaf of some unknown tree 1 Variations on a Mushroom Haiku Sticking on a mushroom (translated by Basho) 2 Boletes in the Northeast – Bill Bakaitis Mushroom does not know That leaf is 6 Membership Form Sticking on it (anonymous japanse composer) That that’s unkown 7 The Wild Epicurean by David Work Brings mushroom and leaf together (interpretation by John Cage) 8 Mushroom of the Moment What Leaf? What Mushroom? (second John Cage interpretation) Myco News 1 understanding. For the Northeast several books can be This article is a companion to the upcoming lecture on 2/15/07 recommended. Snell and Dick, The Boleti of Northeastern North America, published as a folio in 1970 contains @140 BOLETES IN THE species native to the Northeast. The taxonomic system is “European” in that this husband and wife team follows Singer, but once past Xerocomus and Paragyrodon, the NORTHEAST balance of the names coincide with the more usual Bill Bakaitis “American” (followers of Smith) scheme. The color plates are superb, capturing essential elements of identification that Boletes. They are the easiest of mushrooms. They are cannot be easily seen in a photograph. Full use of the keys the most difficult. requires microscopic and chemical analysis, but field observations alone will usually suffice in making Easy, because the rules of edibility are straightforward. determinations. Avoid those that both stain blue and have red tube mouths. In 1971, Alexander Smith and his student Harry Thiers Avoid Leccinum which have dark scabers even in youth. published The Boletes of Michigan listing some 200 Avoid the cuticle and hymenium of Suillus . Avoid those species. Their taxonomic scheme became the standard for that taste bad, are bitter, peppery, or rotten. With some most American authors. This work is now on the web and exception all others are fit for the pot. you can see their classification system on pages 26 and 27. Difficult, because unlike the Amanita (treated here last A section on edibility can be found on pages 407 – 411. (But month) which have an intact integrity as a generic group, the note that some they consider edible have later turned out to Boletes seem to be in constant flux. be toxic). The black and white plates are quite good in the The fruit bodies themselves are subject to almost daily text but reproduce poorly on my computers. Their reliance changes in color, staining and textural features, changes upon technical language, color standards, microscopic and undoubtedly related to environmental conditions. This chemical detail makes this a text more useful to the variability often leads to confusion in the taxonomic specialist than casual collector. determination of species followed by the corresponding In 1973 Smith, Smith and Weber (Husband, Wife and difficulty in identification of a collection by subsequent Daughter) published the wire bound How to Know the Non mycologists be they amateur or professional. Gilled Mushrooms which devoted over 80 pages to the On the web, there are nearly three-quarter of a million Boletaceae. Field and technical characteristics are Google hits for “Boletus”, but it is very difficult to find any seamlessly integrated into a “user friendly” (pre computer) that have a practical or technical utility similar to those you format that has enormous educational value. Fine line will find for Amanita. Keys are hard to find and are usually drawings appear alongside the descriptions which difficult to use. This is not at all surprising. Since Boletes themselves expand from the keys. I have been able to are among the most difficult of all mushrooms to correctly identify mushrooms from this reference that could not be identify it is rare to find an author who wants to leave easily sussed in any other way. Amateurs and professionals his/her frustrations, confusion and ignorance hanging out alike love the texts in this series. there in hyperspace for us all to see. Grund and Harrison, in 1976, following Smith, Because the traditional morphological (field) published Nova Scotian Boletes with both synoptic and characteristics have been so vexing, taxonomists have dichotomous keys of about 80 species and varieties. The increasingly turned to chemical, microscopic and genetic black and white plates are of excellent quality. The features to assist in the classification. As a consequence descriptions and keys are straight forward rich with field there are various taxonomic schemes that co-exist; the observations and easy to use. A gem. Most of their Boletes “European” system of Singer, and the “American” system of are found in our area. Smith are the ones that emerged in the last half of the last In 1993 Ernst Both published The Boletes of North century and which claim the most adherents. America; A Compendium . There are no pictures or keys in Given advances in DNA analysis, you might think that this work, just an alphabetical listing of species, finding a specific DNA bar-code would solve the problem descriptions, synonyms, cross references and comments on and settle the issue of nomenclatural and species integrity, nearly 600 species found in North America. This is an but you would be wrong. Different enzyme snippets of the invaluable resource for the serious collector. genetic material (not surprisingly) lead to different Herewith, an example: A few years ago I was trying to structuring of the clades. Difficulty in the field today resolve some confusion with a collection I had tentatively remains nearly as difficult as it was for Fries who was determined to be either B. innixus , a Frost species first reputed to have said a century and a half ago that no genus described from Vermont in 1874 or B. caespitosis , which gave him more trouble than that of the Boleti. Peck described in 1900. The commentary by Ernst Both is The best resources for working in the Boletes that I have revealing. (P.168 -169 in part) found are all in print, perhaps because authors working in print tend to share certain conventions which facilitate Myco News 2 Frost (1874) placed it [innixus] between Boletus Elsewhere I have described a few methods of working with auriporus Peck and B. roxanne Frost, thus indicating this and other richly detailed texts of nuanced groups (See affinities with both species, affinities also recognized by Mushroom, The Journal Winter 2006). I will illustrate one later authors. Murrill (1909), Coker and Beers (1943), and helpful individualized approach at the February 15th Halling (1983) thought it the same as B. auriporus , a meeting of MHMA, the Key Hole Punch Card System. synonymy rejected by Singer (1947). Snell (1945) believed it Essentially the method involves the creation of a multi- to be the same as B. Roxanne , while Singer (1945d) thought access portable data-base using a hole-punch system to code it close to, if not identical with, this species and/or and catalogue those fungi of personal interest to the Xerocomus boudieri Singer. In a later publication Singer collector. In my case I have cards coded for about 130 (1986) transferred it to Pulveroboletus as an autonomous species (Suillus was deliberately excluded) that have been species, claiming it was the same as P. caespitosus (Peck) described as “Northeastern” species of Boletes (sensu lato). Singer in the sense of Singer (1947, but not Boletus [This would also be an excellent method to use with the caespitosus in Peck’s sense) and the same as B. auriporus in more restricted set of fungi already coded by Grund and the sense of Coker and Beers (1943, but not in Peck’s Harrison. sense), without providing any details. I would be remiss here if I did not mention the work of Roy Halling, the Curator of Mycology, Institute of Systemic Got that? Botany, at the New York Botanical Garden. Roy studied with many of the modern masters in the field and worked And on p. 58, discussing B. caespitosus , Dr. Both with Clark Rogerson at NYBG prior to Clark’s retirement. reveals (following an extensive discussion) that in the type (If Memory serves me correctly, Roy also married the collection there are not one, but two boxes, both of which … daughter of Harry Theirs).
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