V OMPHALINISSN 1925-1858 Report of Foray 2017 Corner Brook-Humber Valley Help Wanted! Please Enquire Within Vol. VIII, No 7 Newsletter of Dec. 5, 2017 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA, newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador, has no fixed schedule of publication, and no promise to appear again. Its primary purpose is to serve as a conduit of information to registrants of the upcoming foray and secondarily as a communications tool with members. is an amateur, volunteer-run, community, Issues of OMPHALINA are archived in: not-for-profit organization with a mission to Library and Archives Canada’s Electronic Collection <http://epe. organize enjoyable and informative amateur lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/omphalina/index.html>, and Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Queen Elizabeth II Library mushroom forays in Newfoundland and (printed copy also archived) <collections.mun.ca/cdm/search/ Labrador and disseminate the knowledge collection/omphalina/>. gained. 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Because content is protected by authors’ copyright, editors of other publications wishing to use any material, should ask first. No picture, no paper. Michael Burzynski CONSULTANTS Material should be original and should deal with the mycota PRESIDENT of Newfoundland and Labrador. Cumulative index and detailed Information for Authors available on our website. Geoff Thurlow MYCOLOGICAL TREASURER Dave Malloch COVER Robert McIsaac NB MUSEUM Orange caps. Photo montage of Newfoundland SECREtaRY and Labrador chanterelles (Cantharellus enelensis) Bill Bryden AUDitoR and forayers along the Participark Trail at Grenfell Jim Cornish Gordon Janes Campus. MB. BONNELL COLE JANES Chris Deduke Jamie Graham LEGAL COUNSEL Anne Marceau Andrew May BROTHERS & BURDEN Erin McKee Faye Murrin PAST PRESIDENT Tina Leonard Andrus Voitk Helen Spencer OMPHALINA V Vol. VIII, No 7 ISSN 1925-1858 OMPHALIN Dec. 5, 2017 Contents Message From The Editor 2 Opportunity for Foray NL Members! 3 Report of Foray 2017: Schedule of Events 4 Fungus Species List 6 What do These Data Mean? 8 Lichen-forming Ascomycetes 12 A Newbie’s Perspective 17 Barry’s Lookout Trail Report 18 My First Foray 20 A Few Notes and Photos 21 Foray 2017 in Photos 22 Workshops 26 Table Sessions 27 The Empty Skillet 28 Care of the Foray Grow-op 30 Group Photograph 32 Participants, Foray 2017 33 Faculty, Foray 2017 34 Faculty Foray Photographs 37 Minutes, AGM 38 Comments and Suggestions 40 15 Years of Foray Experts 42 Mushrooms After Dark 45 Leucocoprinus cepistipes 46 Leucocoprinus birnbaumii 47 Review of Genus Daldinia in NL 48 The Mail Bag 50 New Chanterelle T-shirt 52 Partners. inside back cover Foray 2018 back cover This issue and all previous issues available for download from the Foray Newfoundland & Labrador website <nlmushrooms.ca>. OOMPHALINAMPHALINA 1 Message from the Editor Adolph Ceska This year I have been able to avoid the onerous task more and Marian Wissink for all their help, we will of writing a Message from the President for this miss you on the board, but I hope that we will con- Foray Report issue of OMPHALINA. All that was re- tinue to see you at forays! Also, many thanks to Tina quired was for me to assume the editor/designer role Leonard for filling the secretary position so well, Tina that is usually performed so ably by Marian Wissink. has stepped down from the position, but continues to Marian is using the thin excuse of being out of the help us by serving as a member of the board. continent to beg off this year. It sounded like a good deal at the time—editing instead of presidenting, but The board has decided that Foray 2018 will be held in retrospect, this may not have been my smartest at Burry Heights Camp, on the Salmonier Line, choice... where we were in 2007. It will be held at the end of September (28th, 29th, and 30th) so that we can collect Foray NL has a working board—the directors work some of the later-fruiting fungi—especially boletes behind the scenes from one foray to another to ac- in the genus Suillus. quire funding, balance the budget, choose the loca- tion, find appropriate faculty, arrange for housing and We had a great foray in Corner Brook, and I would meals, prepare the program booklet, check and trans- like to thank Grenfell Campus for all their assistance port the chemicals, library, driers, and microscopes, and support, and for allowing us full access to the ac- and a thousand other tasks. Among other things, commodations, labs, classrooms, and other facilities for example, Marian, usually prepares the Program that made this such an enjoyable event. I would also booklet that each foray attendee receives, and for like to thank all of our sponsors (listed on the inside the last five years she laid out the Foray Report. She back cover) for their generous financial or in-kind solicits articles from various people, and works on support. Without these partners we could not have the design and layout—until this year, when I had the pulled this event off! opportunity to see just how much work she has been putting into the job! At this point, if I still had to compose the Message From the President, I would have to add information I would like to thank the board very much for all the about number of participants (63), number of identi- work that they did to ensure that Foray 2017 was a fied collections (541 fungi, 292 lichens), number of success. I would also like to remind Foray members specimens preserved for herbaria (775), and number that we are always looking for more people to get of different species of fungi and lichens identified involved with the board, or to volunteer to do some (242 and 102, respectively), but luckily I can avoid of the work that is required to prepare for the upcom- all that this year. So, Marian, I hope that you have a ing foray. great trip, but I can’t wait for you to get back! One thing that I did not get to do at Foray 2016 was to Michael Burzynski thank retiring board members Michele Piercey-Nor- Acting Editor/President, Foray NL 2 OMPHALINA Excellent Opportunity for Foray Members! Help Wanted! If you like working with text and laying out photo- graphs; if you enjoy inflicting verbal or visual pun- In fact, now that I think about it, there is really only ishment, such as the script lichen (Graphis scripta) one thing that is inflexible about this publication, and beneath the script above—scrawled over the bark of that is the name OMPHALINA. And, of course, the same a paper birch; if you have a bit of free time on your generous pay package that Andrus currently receives hands and are looking for a fulfilling andenriching will apply to the new editorial staff (i.e.: fame in lieu rewarding educational pastime, you may be just who of fortune). we are looking for. Unfortunately, if we cannot find someone who Due to the pending retirement of our entire editorial would like to take on this project, we may have to board at the end of 2018, Foray NL is searching for cease publication of OMPHALINA. That would be a real one or more people who can take over production of shame, because we are a small group, and OMPHALINA this journal, OMPHALINA. is an important service to our members that helps publicize what we do and keeps members involved After editing and laying out (and, for the most part, and interested from year to year. If you have enjoyed writing and illustrating) an astounding 63 issues of this journal as much as I have over the years, and OMPHALINA over the last seven years, and with more would like to ensure that it will continue to publish issues to come in 2018, our editorial board (i.e.: articles and reports based on the events and collec- Andrus Voitk) has decided to take a break (Andrus tions of Foray Newfoundland and Labrador, please also wrote and laid out 18 pages of this issue). So we contact me as soon as possible. are trying to find one or more members, preferably with experience in editing and digital layout, willing Michael Burzynski to take on this publication so that it can continue into info“at”nlmushrooms.ca the future. The new editor/designer(s) will have the freedom to determine what upcoming issues look like: You (I assume that if you have read this far you may well be the actual candidate for whom we are searching) can change the number of staff, the dimensions, publica- tion frequency, number of pages, content, layout, and style. We could even change to a rotating editorship with several people taking on one or more issues each year. Andrus has prepared a set of guidelines for OMPHALINA, and you can read them in the index vol- ume at www.nlmushrooms.ca/omphaline/App1.pdf.