Yard Mushrooms
10/4/10
Fairy Ring Mushroom aka Marasmius
oreades.
These mushrooms were growing in amongst the lawn grass in a form of an arc of
about 4.5' in diameter. The smallest cap was about 5/8" wile the largest
was 1 5/8".
Here are the smallest.

A pair that are older older.

Top of the oldest - 1 5/8" cap.

Gills on the old one, shown above.

Top of another.

Gills on the one above.

Side

Stem of the largest.

Spore print was white. Spore measured
7.7 x 5.8 microns

A group of common puffballs.

This one looked different. It had
dimples like a golf ball. All were very young and pure white on the
inside.
