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NYMSNew York Mycological Society Newsletter Fall 2015 As your new editor, it gives me great satisfaction to write this, my frst newsletter introduc- tion. In fact, this newsletter represents a great many frsts. Most importantly, we are republishing the frst newsletter ever distributed by the New York Mycological Society, with comments by Gary Lincof. Also, you’ll fnd below, a photo, descrip- tion and recipe for a mushroom I recently cooked for the frst time. There are several members who are contributing to the newsletter for the frst time, including Ethan Crenson writing about his frst trip to the Sam Ristich New England Mycological Federation Foray. It’s been an exciting late summer/early fall season with a great climax of many edibles and interesting fnds. Not to Stalked Bolete Cort, Yellow Violet Viscid by Jacqui Wong ©Watercolor mention our upcoming mushroom book auction! Thank you to all of our readers, and a special thank you to those of you who have contributed to this issue. Keep your submissions coming! Juniper Perlis, Editor NYMS Newsletter Upcoming Book Auction Remember! By Dennis Aita Stay responsibly in touch with us. If your telephone number, mailing The New York Mycological Society will be having a mushroom book auction or email address changes, please on Saturday, December 5. It will be held at the New York Horticultural Society, contact Paul Sadowski, Secretary 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor, NYC. We’ll start at 1pm with a social hour with your new information. On your including wine and cheese and an opportunity to look at the books, followed membership form, please consider by the auction starting at 1:45 pm. There is free street parking on the side going paperless when it comes to streets and the main avenues on Saturday afternoon. receiving these newsletters. Newslet- We now have close to 250 mushrooms books that current members have ters sent via email (PDF fle format) donated as well as from the collections of deceased members. Books on fungi are in color, have live web links, for everyone and at various price levels: feld guides, cookbooks, monographs, help us contain costs, and use NYMS Newsletter books on cultivation, cofee table books, foreign language books, textbooks, fewer natural resources! some old books from the beginning of the last century, and more. Gary Lincof Editor—Juniper Perlis will be the auctioneer. Anyone who was at our last book auction back in 2001, NYMS walks policy: We meet when Copy editor—Paul Sadowski Design—Laurie Murphy when we raised a substantial amount of money for the club, knows what a public transportation arrives. Check A quarterly publication of the fun event it was, and with Gary as auctioneer, oh so interesting! the walks schedule for other trans- New York Mycological Society, The list of books will be posted on our website, alphabetically by author and portation notes. Walks last 5-6 hours distributed to its members. in categories. and are of moderate difculty except President—Eugenia Bone where noted. Bring your lunch, water, Vice President—Dennis Aita We don’t need any more books but we will need some volunteers to help knife, a whistle (in case you get lost or Secretary—Paul Sadowski out with the auction. If you would like to help out please contact Dennis Aita @ injured), and a basket for mushrooms. Treasurer—Kay Spurlock 212-962-6908 or HYPERLINK “mailto:[email protected]” Please let a walk leader know if you Walks Coordinator—Dennis Aita [email protected]. are going to leave early. Lecture Coordinator—Gary Lincof ©Watercolor by Jacqui Wong Viscid Violet Cort, Yellow Stalked Bolete Cort, Yellow Violet Viscid by Jacqui Wong ©Watercolor Study Group—Paul Sadowski Leaders have discretion to cancel Archivist—Ralph Cox walks in case of rain or very dry www.newyorkmyc.org I am taking the opportunity of this newsletter edition, to make a special conditions. Be sure to check your Articles should be sent to: thank you to John Ryan, who developed a beautiful template for our email or contact the walk leader Juniper Perlis emails and announcements. Thank you John!! before a walk to see if it has been CONTENTS 713 Classon Ave, Apt 505 canceled for some reason. Brooklyn, NY 11238 Nonmembers’ attendance is $5 for [email protected] an individual and $10 for a family. 4. Events Held by the NYMS in 347.743.9452 2015 Which You May Regret Membership inquiries: We ask that members refrain from Kay Spurlock—Treasurer- visiting walk sites two weeks prior Having Not Attended New York Mycological Society to the walk. P.O. Box 1162 Stuyvesant Sta. New York, NY 10009 Warning: Many mushrooms are toxic. 5. NYMS First Newsletter, 1977 [email protected] Neither the Society nor individual Address corrections: members are responsible for the iden- 8. Stewed Mushrooms Paul Sadowski tifcation or edibility of any fungus. 205 E. 94 St., #9 New York, NY 10128-3780 [email protected] 10. NEMF All statements and opinions written in this newsletter belong solely to the individual author and in no way represent or refect the opinions or policies of the New York Mycological Society. To receive this publica- tion electronically contact Paul Sadowski at: UPCOMING EVENTS [email protected] Archive copies of the newsletter are available in the Downloads section of our website. Saturday, Dec. 5th Submissions for the next issue of the NYMS newsletter must reach the editor 2015 Book Auction by December 15, 2015. Various formats are acceptable for manuscripts. Address questions to Juniper Perlis, editor. See above for addresses. ©Cover Illustration by Jacqui Wong king Oyster and Shitake 2 3 ©2015 Photo by Jacqui Wong Aaron inspecting an Amanita. Aaron ©2015 Photo by Jacqui Wong Harriman State Park August 8th, 2015 ©Laurie Murphy The Sraying of Chemicals Events Held by the NYMS in NYMS First Newsletter, in New York City Parks 1977 By Claudine Michaud 2015 Which You May Regret By Gary Lincof The information is not easy to come Back in March, 1977, when the NYMS by, but we do know that NYC’s put out its frst issue of our newslet- Department of Health has renewed Having Not Attended ter, I had already been a member of its annual pesticide-spraying assault By Claudine Michaud the New York Mycological Society for in the Parks of all These 3 events are special, unique and refect the spirit of the New York 5 1/2 years. We had been managing 5 Boroughs. Mycological Society. The events were not only delightful to attend, they were with an annual printing of our walk also very productive. All this despite the dry spell of this spring and summer. The following have been in use: schedule, our winter lecture programs, Glycophase (Monsanto’s Roundup) #1 The Past, Present and Future of the Annual Chanterelle Weekend our annual business meeting, and our a pyrethroid and organo-phosphate The Chanterelles weekend in Vermont is part of the history of the NYMS. Back very popular end of the year banquet. pesticide Anvil 10+10, an endocrine in 1962, Laurette Reisman, who was taking classes on Mycology with John We felt, though, that a newsletter disruptor Garlon, is a triclopyr in the Cage at the New School, went to visit some friends in Vermont around Lon- would help us connect with our pyridine group And more that we donderry. There, she found a golden hill with plenty of this bright yellow mush- members on a regular basis, and don’t yet know about. room. Not yet knowing what it was, she took some samples for John to identify. allow us to ofer events through the Amazed by Reisman’s description of so many accessible chanterelles, a group Artist Conk and Amadou year that we could not otherwise A movement has started to build, and of interested people decided to go the following weekend to Londonderry VT By Ben Kingsley readily let all our members know since 2007 NO SPRAY COALITION and see for themselves. That was the frst chanterelle weekend, in 1962. about. One such event was the has been very active. The NSC has These two etched artist’s conks live in our cabin near Speculator, NY the Since then, not a summer has passed without the New York Mycological Soci- Monday night ID sessions at the protested to Mayor de Blasio and the Adirondack Park. The cabin was hand build by a family member in the 1930s, ety going to Vermont. John Cage and his friends continued to be a part of it for New York Botanical Garden, where City Council and is to be part of a and these two conks are dated 1935 and 1937. It is a tradition in the Adiron- several years. And Laurette has been organizing the event without interruption we presented programs on identifca- federal lawsuit. Among the arguments dacks to collect a fresh Ganoderma applanatum on a hike, and to make a for 53 years! Laurette is still an active member of the NYMS and she joined us tion and helped members identify of the NSC is that pesticides may commemorative drawing upon return, usually indicating the destination, names last summer, to everyone’s delight. The history maker in person. I myself have the mushrooms they found over remain in the environment beyond of hikers, and the date. Since we’ve been spending time there every summer been in charge of it for the last ten years, and in the words of Jason Cortlund, the previous weekend. At the time, their intended purpose, they cause for the past ten years, we’ve kept up this tradition and have a growing collec- “out with the old, in with the new.