natural resources, is designated as a National Natural Landmark, and listed on the National The Boleten Register of Historic Places. The Lodge stands now as it did in the 1930’s, and to stay here is a unique Gulf States Mycological Society, Inc. experience. The park features one of the world’s Affiliated with the North American Mycological Association largest and deepest fresh water springs, surrounded Volume XXXIII, Number 3, September 2010 by nearly 3000 acres of pristine forest. Saturday Website - http://gsmyco.org David P. Lewis, President; W. David Fuller, Vice President; forays are being planned into the surrounding areas Patricia Lewis, Sec/Treas; Steve Harsch, Webmaster; Clark by Bill Petty, our man in Crawfordville, FL. Overbo & Juan Luis Mata, Co-Scientific Advisors. ------You may find time for birding, swimming, or a 2010 MEMBERSHIP DUES River Cruise tour of the Wakulla River. The River IF THE YEAR AT THE END OF YOUR NAME Cruise runs daily, from 9:40AM-5PM hourly, $8 per IS EARLIER THAN ‘10, YOUR DUES ARE adult. PAST DUE. PLEASE MAIL YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO "GSMS" IN THE AMOUNT OF Dr. Tom Volk, Professor of Biology at the $15 - INDIVIDUAL OR $20 - FAMILY TO University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, will be our "GSMS, 262 CR 3062, NEWTON, TX 75966" IF guest mycologist. He teaches several courses on YOU WISH TO PAY YOUR NAMA DUES AT Mycology and related subjects, and Latin and Greek THE REDUCED RATE OF $32, INCLUDE A for scientists. His extensive research includes SEPARATE CHECK PAYABLE TO "NAMA", studies of the genera Armillaria, Morchella, IN THE SAME ENVELOPE. PLEASE MAIL Hydnellum, Laetiporus, fungal biodiversity studies, NOW AS WE ARE REQUIRED TO PURGE and mushroom cultivation. His internet webpage, MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT CURRENT ON http//TomVolkFungi.net has many popular features. EACH YEAR'S DUES. THANKS. Dr. Bart Buyck of the National Museum of Natural GSMS WINTER FORAY 2010 History in Paris, France, may give a talk on the WAKULLA SPRINGS STATE PARK genus Russula. Bart will be visiting the US for a few WAKULLA SPRINGS, FLORIDA weeks and we hope he will be able to work us into DECEMBER 3 - 5, 2010 his schedule. REGISTRATION DEADLINE We plan to have entertainment on Friday or NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Saturday evening, a Bluegrass Band courtesy of Bill Our foray will return to Wakulla Springs State Park Petty and the Wildwood Weeds, and details are & Lodge, 550 Wakulla Springs Dr, Wakulla being arranged. Springs, FL 32305, and located 15 miles south of Tallahassee, Florida. We have not been here since Lodge space is limited, and when the 26 rooms at the summer of 2002, and we look forward to our the Lodge are filled, no additional reservations will return. www.floridastateparks.org be accepted. Details on room layout can be seen in the registration form. Persons wishing to attend who The Lodge can be reached by taking State Hwy 61 reside nearby may choose to pay only the south from Tallahassee, and turning east on State registration fee, as an off-site attendee. Hwy 267 to the entrance. The entrance fee will be waived for participants, simply let the guard at the Registration will begin on Friday at 2:30PM in the gate know that you are there for a meeting. Check- Lodge main lobby. The complete itinerary for the in time for your room at the Lodge is 3:00 PM. foray will be available there. We will have a snack

The historic Lodge, built in 1937, and surrounding buffet/pot luck in the Dogwood Room (formerly the Pavillion) beginning at 6:00PM on Friday. Please

bring a dish to share, if you are able. Other Friday Location information may be found on their website activities will be a welcome and introduction around www.outdoornatureclub.org 7:30PM, discussion of the Saturday foray sites, ******************************************* social and possible entertainment. GULF STATES SUMMER FORAY JULY 9 – 11, HILLSDALE, MS All meals (except Friday dinner and a make-your- Our summer foray was held at King’s Arrow Ranch own sack lunch on Saturday) are at your own Inn, at Hillsdale MS. We began on Friday evening expense. The Lodge Dining Room has an excellent with our Shrimp Boil at poolside, prepared in fine menu, and meals may be charged to your room with style by Peyton Wilson. We were able to meet, for a credit card. The Dining Room hours are: the first time, his able assistant and better half, Breakfast 7:30-10:00AM, Dinner 6:00-8:00PM. Linda, and we hope to see her much more often, And there are snacks available at the Gift Shop since her retirement. Many thanks to Peyton, Linda, Snack Bar, open 9AM–5PM. and Ben Rauch.

We must release rooms after Nov. 12, so please mail Our forays on Saturday took us to the Wolf River the attached registration form and your check to WMA, Red Creek near Ramsey Springs, and reach us by that date. For more information Pascagoula River WMA. We found 32 species of telephone Patricia Lewis 409-423-3776, or email Boletes, six species of Cantherellus, eight of dandplewis at gmail dot com Lactarius, ten of Russula, and six of Amanita. A few ************************************** of the more uncommon fungi include Amanita BIG THICKET MUSHROOM WALK hesleri, Boletellus chrysenteroides, Fistulinella IN TEXAS jamaicensis, Laetiporus persicinus, and Tylopilus SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2010 rhoadsiae. We will meet at 10 AM at the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) Field Research Station (FRS), This was the first year that Allison and Jake Walker located in Saratoga TX, on the west side of the obtained group collecting permits for us for the State highway. Saratoga is approx. 35 miles NW of of Mississippi WMA’s, to avoid collecting illegally Beaumont. The FRS is on FM 770, north off TX and possible fines. Thanks, Allison and Jake. Hwy 105 between Beaumont and Cleveland. We will foray into the Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, Dr. Ron Petersen of the University of Tennessee at collect and record species, and thereby assist with Knoxville spoke on “Names, Names, Names” the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) species explaining how DNA and mating studies have list for the BTNP. caused name changes for some common fungi. After collecting, we will return to the FRS, have lunch, and discuss the morning’s finds. Bring The graduate student we hosted this summer was collecting gear, rainwear, water, bug spray, and a Katherine Winsett, of the University of Arkansas at sack lunch Please call or email with any questions: Fayetteville. She presented on “Myxomycetes of David & Patricia Lewis 409-423-3776 or email: the Gulf Coast and East Texas”. Katie greatly added dandplewis at gmail dot com to our knowledge of the Myxomycetes (Slime ************************************** Molds). Houston Outdoor Nature Club At our business meeting, all our officers were Presentation & Nature Walk reelected for another year, and we discussed plans David Lewis will give a talk on Mushrooms to the for our winter foray, to be held December 3 – 5, in Outdoor Nature Club in Houston on Thursday, Wakulla Springs, Florida. November 11, 2010. He will lead a mushroom walk Members attending were Nancy Gilmore, Jay at the LittleThicket Nature Sanctuary near Justice, David & Patricia Lewis, Therese Martin, Cleveland, TX on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Juan Luis Mata, Dennis & Angelica Miller, Julia

O’Neal, Clark Ovrebo, Bill Petty, Ben Rauch, Paul Collybia biformis (Pk.) Singer & Patch Scott, Wallace & Lyn Tomlinson, Odin Coltricia perennis (L.:Fr.) Murrill Toness, Phillip & Alexandra Tussing, Don Ward, Cortinarius callisteus (Fr.) Fr. Robert & Rosemary Williams, and Peyton & Linda Cortinarius marylandensis Amm. & Sm. nom. prov. Wilson. Non-members were D W Borland, Entoloma strictius (Pk.) Sacc. Margaret Evans, Van & Susan Metzler, Ron Fistulinella jamaicensis (Murr.) Singer Petersen, Katherine Winsett, and Heather, James, Fomitella supina (Sw.) Murr. and Thomas Wilson. Ganoderma lucidum Leysser: Fr. SPECIES LIST FOR SUMMER FORAY Gerronema strombodes (Berkeley & Montagne) Agrocybe retigera (Spegazzini) Singer Sing. Amanita flavoconia Atkinson Gymnopilus liquiritiae (Pers: Fr.) Karst. Amanita flavorubescens Atkinson Gymnopus confluens (Persoon:Fr.) Antonin, Halling Amanita gemmata (Fr.) Gill & Nordeloos Amanita hesleri Bas. Gymnopus iocephalus (Berk. & Curtis) Halling Amanita rubescens (Pers.: Fr.) S.F. Gray Gyroporus castaneus (Bull.: Fr.) Quel. Amanita species T10 Helvella macropus (Pers.: Fr.) Kar. Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Sing. Lactarius corrugis Pk. Boletus atkinsonii Pk. Lactarius fumosus Pk. Boletus auripes Pk. Lactarius hysginus Fr. Boletus auriporus Pk. Lactarius peckii (Burlingham) Sacc. Boletus campestris Smith & Thiers Lactarius piperatus (Scop.: Fr.) S.F. Gray Boletus frostii Russell apud Frost Lactarius subplinthogalus Coker Boletus hypocarycinus Sing. Lactarius subvernalis Hesler & Smith Boletus innixus Frost Lactarius subvernalis var. cokeri A.H.S. & Theirs Boletus lewisii (Singer) A.E. Bessette, W.C. Roody Laetiporus persicinus (B. & C.) Gilb. & A.R. Bessette Leccinum albellum (Fr.) Sing. Boletus miniato-pallescens A.H. Smith & Thiers Leccinum rugosiceps (Pk.) Sing. Boletus pallidus Frost Lentinula raphanica (Murr.) Mata & R.H. Petersen Boletus retipes Berk. & Curt. Lentinus crinitus (L:Fr.) Fr. Boletus rufomaculatus Both Lepiota besseyi H.V. Smith & N.S. Weber Boletus spadiceus Fr. Microporellus dealbatus (B.& C.) Murr. Boletus subglabripes Pk. Microporellus obovatus (Jungh) Ryv. Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum (Berk. & Curt.) Phellinus gilvus (Schw.) Pat. Singer Pulveroboletus hemichrysus (Berk. & Curt) Singer Calocera cornea (Fr.) Loudon Pulveroboletus cfr. lignicola perhaps new! Calostoma cinnabarina Desv. Russula albida Pk. Calvatia craniiformis (Schw.) Fr. Russula compacta Frost Cantharellus cibarius var. amethysteus Russula crustosa Pk. (Quel.)Feibelman Russula flavida Frost Cantharellus cinnabarinus Schw. Russula ludoviciana Shaffer Cantharellus confluens (Berk. & Curt.) Peterson Russula mariae Pk. Cantharellus lateritius (Berk.) Singer Russula pallidocrustosa sp. nov. (unpublished) Cantharellus minor Pk. Russula pectinatoides Pk. Cantarellus tabernensis Feibelman Russula romagnesiana Shaffer Chlorophyllum molybdites (Meyer: Fr.) Mass. Russula subgraminicolor Murr. Calvatia craniformis (Schw.) Fr. Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Clavicorona pyxidata (Fr.) Doty Stereum ostrea (Blume & Nees.) Fr. Clitocybe gibba (Pers.) P. Kumm. Strobilomyces dryophila Cibula & Weber

Suillus decipiens (Berk & Curt) Kuntze Lentinus trigrinus (Bull.) Fr. Suillus salmonicolor (Frost) Halling Microporellus obovatus (Jungh) Ryv. Tetrapyrgos nigripes (Schw.) Horak Phaeolus schweinitzii (Fr.) Pat. Thelephora terrestris Ehrhart: Fr. Phylloporus boletinoides Thiers & Smith Thelephora vialis Schw. Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schw.) Bres. Trametes menziesii (Berk.) Ryvarden Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.: Fr.) Kummer Trametes versicolor (L.: Fr.) Pilat Tylopilus ballouii (Pk.) Singer Polyporus species Tylopilus ferrugineus (Frost) Singer Russula amoenolens Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus (Snell & Dick) Sing. Russula eccentrica Pk. Tylopilus rhoadsiae (Murr.) Murrill Russula DPL-7281 Tylopilus rubobrunneus Mazzer & A. H. Smith Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Tylopilus sordidus (Frost) Smith & Thiers Stereum ostrea (Blume & Nees.) Fr. Tylopilus violatinctus Baroni and Both Trametes versicolor (L.: Fr.) Pilat Tyromyces chioneus (Fr.) Karst. Trichaptum abietinus (Fr.) Ryv. Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & Dick Unknown resupinate Xanthoconium separans (Pk.) Halling & Both Xanthoconium affine var. affine (Pk.) Singer Xeromphalina campanella (Batsch: Fr.) Kuhn.& R. Mre. Xanthoconium separans (Pk.) Halling & Both Xerulina chrysopepla Berk & Curt. ############################################# ======BIG THICKET MUSHROOM WALK IN MOREL WALK - MARCH 19, 2010 TEXAS ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA JUNE 12, 2010 Vice President David Fuller led our annual Morel Walk in the Tunica Hills WMA. The cool weather Our Mushroom Walk in the Big Thicket National in February and March was unfavorable for morels, Preserve had 45 participants. Members attending and only one morel was found. But the hardy were Sergio & Wanda Henao, Jay Justice, David & persons who attended did their best to find the Patricia Lewis, Dennis & Angelica Miller, Jolyn elusive fungi. Members attending were David Piercy & David Werth, John Soileau, Phillip & Fuller, Mona Hollier, Gil Lawler & Belle Spalding, Alexandra Tussing, and Brooks Young. Therese Martin, Ben Rauch, Paul Scott, Phillip & SPECIES LIST FOR BTNP MUSHROOM WALK Alexandra Tussing, Charles Walter, and Don Ward. Amanita bisporigera Atkinson Non-members were Janell, Jessica & Justin Amanita flavoconia Atkinson Wilhelm, Lorelei Patrick, David Cross, Juliet Tang, Amanita roseitincta Murrill and Paul Robinson. Amanita rubescens (Pers.: Fr.) S.F. Gray SPECIES LIST FOR MOREL FORAY Amanita species Astraeus sp. Amanita vaginata complex Hericium erinaceus Anthracophyllum lateritium (Burk. & Curt.) Sing. Lycoperdon pyriforme Boletus patrioticus Baroni, A.E. Besette, & Roody Morchella sp. Boletus rubellus Kromb. Phellinus sp. Cantharellus cinnabarinus Schw. Pluteus sp. Cantharellus minor Pk. Pluteus petasatus Cortinarius marylandensis Amm. & Sm. nom. prov. Stereum complicatum Ganoderma lucidum Leysser: Fr. Trametes versicolor Gloeporus dicorous (Fr.) Bres.

Gymnopilus species Gymnopus iocephalus (Berk. & Curtis) Halling Gyroporus castaneus (Bull.: Fr.) Quel. Leccinum rugosiceps (Pk.) Sing. Lentinus tephroleucus Mont. In Tijds.