St.Francisville, LA. Those attending will have to possess either a valid LA hunting or fishing license or a WMA use permit. These must be carried on The Boleten your person, and because there is a lot of poaching in this area, we will almost certainly be asked to Gulf States Mycological Society, Inc. show our permits. The permit may be purchased Affiliated with the North American Mycological Association Volume XXXIV, Number 1, March 2011 online from Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries, or any Website - http://gsmyco.org place selling Hunting/Fishing licenses. Each vehicle David P. Lewis, President; W. David Fuller, Vice President; will also have to be registered at the self-check Patricia Lewis, Secretary/Treasurer/Editor; Juan Luis Mata, Webmaster; station at the WMA entrance. There is a five (5) Clark Overbo & Juan Luis Mata, Co-Scientific Advisors. gallon limit per person per day for mushrooms. ------2011 MEMBERSHIP DUES David will request non-GSMS member guests to IF THE YEAR AT THE END OF YOUR NAME sign a waiver of liability against GSMS members, IS EARLIER THAN ‘11, YOUR DUES ARE because of the many dangers in this area. These DUE. A MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION IS dangers include very steep, slick, and unstable ATTACHED, PLEASE COMPLETE IT AND slopes, timber and pygmy rattlesnakes, MAIL WITH YOUR CHECK. WE ARE copperheads, water moccasins, Lyme's disease REQUIRED TO PURGE MEMBERS WHO and West Nile Virus. Bears, a rare panther, and HAVE NOT PAID DUES BY JUNE OF EACH feral hogs occasionally visit the area. It is YEAR. PLEASE MAIL NOW. THANKS. suggested that appropriate footwear, with good *************************************************************************************** ankle support and traction, be worn. People with OUR WEBSITE bee or other allergies should bring appropriate Juan Luis Mata is our new webmaster. He is medication. A walking/snake stick is suggested. working diligently to give our site a new look, so please be patient and we will be rewarded St. Francisville is located on Hwy 61, about 60 soon. Our thanks to Steve Harsch for many miles south of Natchez, MS and about 40 miles north of Baton Rouge. St. Francisville can be years of work as our Editor and Webmaster. approached from the south or north by Hwy 61, ***************************************************** from the east by LA Hwy 10 or from west by means A MEMBER LIST IS ATTACHED. IT IS ONLY of the LA Hwy 10 ferry. Those crossing the ferry FOR MEMBERS WHO WISH TO CONTACT should allow an extra 30 minutes because the ferry OTHER MEMBERS. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE crosses at 30 minute intervals. Those needing FOR MARKETING OR OTHER PURPOSES. better travel directions should email the Fullers at ***************************************************** df13bsf (at) yahoo.com , telephone them, or go to MOREL WALK IN TUNICA HILLS www.MapQuest.com and search. There are nice ST FRANCISVILLE LA (TBD March 2011) motels and Bed & Breakfasts in the area for those The date of the morel walk will be decided later this wishing to spend the night. Go to year. After years of finding few morels on the pre- www.stfrancisville.com/hotels/index.htm . determined date, our vice president, David Fuller, We will meet at M&J Grocery on LA Hwy 66, locally has decided to check the morel spots every day or known as the "Angola Road". LA Hwy 66 originates two beginning early in March to see if morels are at Hwy 61, about three miles north of St. fruiting. When fruiting begins, we will email Francisville, and ends at the Angola Prison Farm. members to let them know the date to meet David LA Hwy 66 is very well marked. M&J's Grocery is for the walk. The meeting place and foray sites located 6.2 miles from the turn onto LA Hwy 66 and should be the same as in prior years. is on the left side of the road. David will be there beginning at 8:30 AM and we will all leave for the David reports that camping is now allowed in the site at 10:00 AM. M&J's Grocery prepares snacks Tunica Hills WMA, for those who may be and sandwiches, and may sell permits and interested. You may telephone David with licenses. David's cell phone number is 225-721- questions on his cell phone 225-721-0409. It may 0409 for those lost or in trouble. We will end the take a few days but he will get back with you. walk at 4:00 PM. Lunch will be "on the hoof" so that more time can be spent hunting. See you there! The Tunica WMA is a beautiful and rugged area of David Fuller loessal bluffs with an Upland Hardwood habitat ------located about 20 miles by road NW of weather (temperatures fell below freezing for several days), collecting was excellent and over 90 BIG THICKET/TEXAS MUSHROOM WALK species were brought to the table. JUNE 11, 2011 We will meet at 10 AM at the Big Thicket National Early collecting on Thursday was led by foray chair Preserve (BTNP) Field Research Station (FRS), Bill Petty, with Ron Petersen, and David and located in Saratoga TX, on the west side of the Patricia Lewis going to the Arran (Bone Yard) and highway. Saratoga is approx. 35 miles NW of Lost Lakes areas located within the Apalachicola Beaumont. The FRS is on FM 770, north off TX National Forest. Hwy 105 between Beaumont and Cleveland. We will foray into the Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP Friday evening events began with a pot luck dinner. near the Cypress Swamp on Teel Road. We will Excellent food was brought by our members, with collect and record species, and thereby assist with everything from salads, casseroles and meats to the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) species desserts, candy, and wine. During and after dinner, list for the BTNP. Students from Eastfield College in we were entertained by the “Wildwood Weeds”, a Mesquite, TX will also be in attendance. After bluegrass band whose appearance was arranged collecting, we will return to the FRS, have lunch, by Bill Petty. We thank you, Bill, and the band too. and discuss the morning’s finds. Bring collecting Our guest mycologist was Bart Buyck, who is gear, rainwear, water, bug spray, and a sack lunch Curator of the Mycological Herbarium at the Please call or email with any questions: David & National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Patricia Lewis 409-423-3776 or email: dandplewis France, and an expert on the genus Russula. Bart (at) gmail.com and his colleague, Valerie Hofstetter, were in the ------U.S. to visit Gainesville, Florida, where they were GULF STATES SUMMER FORAY studying W.A. Murrill’s Russula types to bring their JULY 8–10, 2011 HILLSDALE MS taxonomy up to date. Bart offered to make a Our summer foray will be held at King’s Arrow presentation on Friday evening of a more technical Ranch Inn, at Hillsdale MS. We will meet on Friday nature than his Saturday night talk, and many evening for our Shrimp Boil at poolside, followed by members decided to listen in. Bart’s topic was field trips and presentations on Saturday, and “Toward a New Infrageneric Classification of depart for home on Sunday following the Russula”. We were all enlightened by his analysis “Walk-around-the-tables”. Our guest Mycologist of this very difficult genus. will be Andrew Methven of Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, an expert on the genus Saturday began with breakfast in the Lodge dining Lactarius. Andy is well known in mycological room, and then we prepared our sack lunches circles for his lectures and workshops. The title of provided by the Society and headed off in several his talk will be “Sharing the Same Name: North directions for our field trips. Bill Petty and Juan Luis American and European Species of Lactarius”. We Mata, and David Lewis and Bart Buyck led field will host Dr. Methven’s graduate student, Gerald trips on the Wakulla Springs State Park nature (Gerry) Presley, who will present on trails. Ron Petersen and Rich Baird led a field trip “Biodegradation of Atrazine by Fungi”. to the Bone yard (Arran area), and Bill Roody and ------Jay Justice led a trip to the Silver Lakes area. GSMS WINTER FORAY DEC 2 – 4, 2011 The location is TBA (to be announced) but the date Upon returning from the field trips, everyone should remain as stated. displayed the mushrooms found, and the ------mycologists began to discuss identifications. We GSMS SUMMER FORAY JULY 6 – 8, 2012 were honored to have 15 mycologists attending, The Inn at Wildwood, Crawfordville, Florida and that simplified the process. We thank all of Details to follow later. them for their participation. In the afternoon a ------microscope workshop was conducted by our co- GSMS WINTER FORAY scientific advisor, Juan Luis Mata. We had several WAKULLA SPRINGS STATE PARK & LODGE, new members in attendance who appreciated the FLORIDA opportunity to work with an expert. DECEMBER 3 – 5, 2010 Participants were met by a colder than normal After dinner as a group in the dining room in the winter for the semi-annual GSMS foray held at the beautiful Wakulla Springs Lodge, we returned to Wakulla Springs State Park & Lodge. Despite the the Dogwood Room for our evening presentation and social. Bart Buyck’s talk, “Looking for Fungi in which fruit in very sandy areas. Interesting species Faraway Places”, was on collecting mushrooms in collected on Saturday include Amanita mutabilis places such as Africa and New Caledonia. We (bruises pinkish red), Boletus abruptibulbus, a new were delighted to see such exotic mushrooms from species described by Bill Roody, Russula levyana, these countries. Bart pointed out that the soils in a Murrill species recently redescribed by Bart New Caledonia are high in the metal nickel. Buyck, the rare bolete Tylopilus conicus, and a species of Xylaria that fruits on the shell of Hickory We thank our wonderful musicians Susan Metzler, nuts. It was interesting that 7 species of boletes Bill Petty, Ben Rauch and Peyton Wilson for their were found this late in the year. D & P Lewis entertainment on Saturday afternoon on the patio. SPECIES LIST FOR WINTER FORAY It adds another dimension to our events. Amanita bisporigera Atkinson Amanita citrina var. lavendula Coker On Sunday morning the “Walk-around-the-tables” Amanita muscaria var. persicina Jenkins was conducted by Juan Luis Mata and Jay Justice. Amanita mutabilis Beardslee They reviewed the species found, discussed the Amanita vaginata var. vaginata (Bull.: Fr.) Vitt. Astraeus hygrometricus (Pers.) Morgan identification characteristics, and answered many Baeospora myosura (Fr.) Singer questions. Boletus abruptibulbus Roody, Both & B. Ortiz Boletus griseus Frost apud Pk. Visiting Texas mycologists and authors, Susan and Boletus subglabripes Pk. Van Metzler, attended the foray. They are working Chroogomphus vinicolor (Pk.) O.K. Miller on a revised edition of their “Texas Mushrooms” Cortinarius aureifolius Pk. book, and are acquiring new photographs. They Cortinarius cf. obliquus Pk. passed out an outline of photographic standards, Cortinarius iodes Berk. & Curt. and encouraged everyone to submit mushroom Cortinarius violaceus (Fr.) S. F. Gray photos for publication. Van brought used books to Cymatoderma caperatum (Mont. & Berk.) Reid Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolt.: Fr.) Schroet. sell, and contributed a painting “Amanita of my Daldinia concentrica (Bolt: Fr.) Ces. & de Not. Dreams” for the silent auction. Entoloma abortivum (Berk. & Curt.) Donk Fomes fasciatus (Swartz:Fries)M.C. Cooke GSMS thanks Van Metzler, Lyn Tomlinson, and Geaster species Patricia Lewis for items donated for the silent Gloeporus dichrous (Fr.) Bres. auction. We thank Norman Anderson, Rich Baird, Gymnopilus liquiritiae (Pers: Fr.) Karst. Steve Gunter, Robert Kelly, Juan Luis Mata, Peyton Gymnopilus penetrans (Fr. ex Fr.) Murr. Wilson, and anyone else who helped unload and Gymnopus spongiosus (B&C) Halling reload foray supplies from our camper. Also thanks Hericium erinaceus (Bull.)Pers. to everyone who helped with the Friday potluck and Hohenbuehelia petaloides (Bull.) Schulzer Hygrocybe miniata (Fr.) P. Kumm. Saturday sack lunches and social. Special thanks Hygrophorus coccineus (Fr.) Fr. go to “Our Man in Crawfordville” Foray Chair Bill Hygrophorus subsordidus Murr. Petty for obtaining our collecting permits and Hypholoma fasciculare (Fr.) P. Kumm. organizing the field trips. Hypoxylon fragiforme (Pers.) J. Kickxf. Inocybe rimosa Britzelm. Members attending were Norman Anderson, Irpex lactea (Fr.) Fr. Richard Baird, David Borland, Ben & Beth Fusaro, Laccaria laccata (Scop.:Fr.) Cke. var. pallidifolia (Pk.) Heinz & Julie Gaylord, Nancy Gilmore, Steve & Ann Pk. Gunter, Joe Hawkins, Bruce Horn, Jay Justice, Joe Laccaria trichodermophora Mueller & Carol Kanapka, Robert Kelly, David & Patricia Laccaria trullisata (Ellis) Pk. Laccaria vinaceobrunnea Mueller Lewis, Therese Martin, Juan Luis Mata, Donna Lactarius imperceptus Beards. & Burl. Mitchell, Julia O’Neal, E J & Gerrianne Parker, Bill Lactarius paradoxus Beards. & Burl. Petty, Ben Rauch, Bill Roody, Charles Walter, Lactarius proximellus Beards. & Burl. Robert & Rosemary Williams, and Peyton Wilson. Lactarius pseudodeliciosus Beards. & Burl. Non-members attending were Bart Buyck, Ann Lactarius quietus var. incanus Hesler & A.H. Smith Fallon, Anna Gerenday, Valerie Hofstetter, Susan & Lactarius tomentoso-marginatus Hesler & Smith Van Metzler, and Ron Petersen. Lentinus crinitus (L:Fr.) Fr. Lentinus tephroleucus Mont. Interesting species collected on Thursday include Lepiota acutesquamosa (Weinmann) Kummer Baeospora cf. mysora, which fruits on pine cones, Lepista nuda (Bull.) Cooke Lycoperdon pyriforme Schaeff.: Pers. and Cortinarius violaceus and Laccaria trullisata, Microporellus dealbatus (B.& C.) Murr. Mycena epipterygia (Scop.) Gray include Stephanie & Robert Baggett, Sergio & Mycena galericulata (Scop.) Gray Wanda Henao, David & Patricia Lewis, Jolyn Piercy Neolentinus lepideus (Fr.) Redhead & Ginns & David Werth, Veljko & Diane Roskar, Phillip & Nigroporus vinosus (Berk.) Murrill Alexandra Tussing, Charles Walter, and Brooks & Oligoporous fragilis (Fr.) Gilb. & Ryv. Bernadine Young, and 22 non-members Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer Panellus stipticus (Bull.: Fr.) Karst. SPECIES LIST FOR BIG THICKET WALK Phanerochaete chrysorhiza (Torr.) Budington & Gilb. Abortiporus biennis (Bull.) Singer Phellinus gilvus (Schw.) Pat. Araricus silvaticus Schff. Phyllotopsis nidulans (Pers.: Fr.) Sing. Agrocybe acericola (Pk.) Singer Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.: Fr.) Kummer Amanita bisporigera Atkinson Pluteus lutescens (Fr.) Bres. Baeospora myosura (Fr.) Singer Russula compacta Frost Bjerkandera adusta (Fr.) Karst. Russula levyana Murrill Calostoma cinnabarina Desv. Russula vinacea Burlingham Cortinarius alboviolaceus (Pers. ex. Fr.) Fr. Scleroderma geaster Fr. Crepidotus crocophyllus (Berk.) Sacc. Scleroderma meridionale Domoulin & Melencon Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolt.: Fr.) Schroet. Scorias spongiosa (Schwein.:Fr.) Fr. Entoloma sinuatum (Bull. ex. Fr.) Kummer Spongipellis pachydon (Pers.) Kotl. & Pouz. Entoloma species (2) Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Ganoderma lucidum Leysser: Fr. Stereum ostrea (Blume & Nees.) Fr. Gloeporus dichrous (Fr.) Bres. Strobilurus conigenoides (Ellis.) Singer Gymnopilus fulvosquamulosus Hesler Suillus brevipes (Pk.) Kuntze Gymnopilus liquiritiae (Pers: Fr.) Karst. Suillus cothurnatus Sing. Gymnopilus penetrans (Fr. ex Fr.) Murr. Suillus hirtellus (Pk.) Kuntze Gymnopus spongiosus (B&C) Halling Suillus salmonicolor (Frost) Halling Hohenbuehelia species Thelephora terrestris Ehrhart: Fr. Hygroaster species Trametes elegans (Spreng.: Fr.) Fr. Hygrocybe conica (Fr.) Kummer Trametes versicolor (L.: Fr.) Pilat Hypholoma fasciculare (Fr.) P. Kumm. Tremella foliacea Pers. Irpex lacteus (Fr. ex Fr.) Fr. Tremellodendropsis semivestita (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Laccaria trichodermophora Mueller R.H. Petersen Lentinus crinitus (L:Fr.) Fr. [was Panus crinitus] Trichaptum abietinus (Fr.) Ryv. Lenzites betulina (L.:Fr.)Fr. Trichaptum biforme (Fr. in Kl.) Ryv. Lepiota species (2) Trichaptum sector (Fr.) Kreisel Lepista nuda (Bull.) Cooke Tricholoma caligata (Viv.)Rick. Lepista tarda (Pk.) Murr. Tricholoma niveipes Peck Leucoagaricus brunnescens = Lepiota brunnescens Tylopilus conicus (Rav. apud B.& C.) Beardslee Leucoagaricus fragillissimus (Rav. In B&C) Pat. Xeromphalina campanella (Batsch: Fr.) Kuhn.& R. Mre. Lycoperdon perlatum Pers. Xylaria magnoliae J. Rogers Lycoperdon pyriforme Schaeff.: Pers. Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.: Fr.) Grev. Marasmius fulvoferrugineus Gilliam Xylaria species on hickory nut shell Microporellus obovatus (Jungh) Ryv. Xylobolus subpileatus (B & C) Boidin Mycena haematopus (Pers.: Fr.) Kummer Zelleromyces cinnabarinus Sing. & A.H. Smith Mycena species ------Nigroporus vinosus (Berk.) Murrill BIG THICKET MUSHROOM WALK IN TEXAS Panellus stipticus (Bull.: Fr.) Karst. Phaeolus schweinitzii (Fr.) Pat. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010 Phellinus gilvus (Schw.) Pat. We had 37 attendees including a contingency of Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.: Fr.) Kummer mycology students from Stephen F. Austin Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.: Fr.) Kummer University in Nacogdoches, TX. The participants Pseudofavolus cucullatus (Mont.) Pat. visited the cypress swamp on Teel Road, located Pulveroboletus hemichrysus (Berk. & Curt) Singer within the Lance Rosier Unit of the Big Thicket Scleroderma species National Preserve. Lunch was at the Field Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Research Station followed by a discussion of the Stereum ostrea (Blume & Nees.) Fr. morning finds. A total of 59 species were identified Stereum striatum var. striatum (Fr.) Fr. (Carpinus only) including Baeospora myosura, which fruits on pine Strobilurus conigenoides (Ellis.) Singer Trametes menziesii (Berk.) Ryvarden cones (also a new record for the Preserve), Trametes versicolor (L.: Fr.) Pilat Leucoagaricus brunnescens, a new Preserve Trichaptum biforme (Fr. in Kl.) Ryv. record, and an unknown species in the genus Unknown crust may be PC Hygroaster, a tropical genus not known from the Unknown puffball United States until now. GSMS members attending Xeromphalina campanella (Batsch: Fr.) Kuhn.& R. Mre.