#355

• Hypogeous in open mixed oak/hickory woodland ridge.
• Nearby Trees: Shagbark Hickory, Chinkapin Oak, Ash, American Hophornbeam, Black Oak, and Black Walnut.
• Exoperidium thin and tan.
• Interior powdery and black with whitish inner fibrous material.
• Smell: foul
• Microscopy: mounted in Melzer's. Spores ornamented in dense layer of curled spines. (Reminiscent of Scleroderma)

#354

• Hypogeous in mixed oak/hickory woodland ridge.
• Nearby Trees: Shagbark Hickory, Chinkapin Oak, Ash, American Hophornbeam, Black Oak, and Black Walnut.
• Peridium gray and fairly thick.
• Interior laden with powdery light colored spores.
• Smell: slightly foul.
• Taste: not distinctive
• Microscopy: mounted in Melzer's.

AA89

Hypogeous, roughly 3-4 cm deep in the side wall of a rodent dig site, in upland mixed oak/hickory woodland.

• Nearby Trees: Black Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Basswood, Shagbark Hickory, and Black Cherry.

• Exoperidium thin, brown and hard with a finely wrinkled surface.

• Endoperidium thick and gray.

• Gleba whitish and powdery.

• Smell: not distinctive from the dirt it was buried in.

• Microscopy: mounted in Melzer's Reagent.

AC62

Hypogeous, found in rodent dig site in upland oak woodland slope. Nearby Trees: Bur Oak, Eastern Red Cedar, Ironwood, Basswood, and Hackberry.

Sarpy Co. Nebraska

Microscopy: hydrated in KOH and mounted in Melzer's reagent.

#378

• Hypogeous, roughly 3-4 cm below moss patches in open mixed oak woodland edge.
• Parasitized by Tolypocladium ophioglossoides.
• Nearby Trees: Black Oak, American Hophornbeam, Ash, Northern Red Oak, and Shagbark Hickory.
• Outer surfaces highly ornamented with tiny polyhedral spines.

AC63

Nemaha Co. Nebraska

Hypogeous under Black Oak at the edge of mixed oak woodland. Nearby Trees: Black Oak, Black Cherry, Bur Oak, and Chinkapin Oak.

Smell: not distinctive.

Microscopy: hydrated in KOH and mounted in Melzer's reagent.

Richardson Co. Nebraska

AC33

Hypogeous, in mixed oak/hickory woodland, near Missouri River.

Nearby Trees: American Hop Hornbeam, Ash, Northern Red Oak, Bur Oak, Shagbark Hickory, and Basswood.

Smell: not distinctive

Microscopy: hydrated with KOH then mounted in Melzer's reagent.

Collected With No Number.

Richardson Co. Nebraska

Hypogeous, roughly 4-5 cm down in rodent dog site, in upland mixed oak/hickory woodland.

Microscopy: spores mounted in Melzer's reagent. Outer peridium rehydrated in ammonia and mounted in Congo Red.

AE67

Richardson Co. Nebraska

Dirt easily removed from outer peridium, unlike many others species.

Microscopy: mounted in Melzer's reagent.

UV: peridium light green under 365nm.

Richardson Co. Nebraska

Collected With No Number.

Hypogeous in upland mixed oak/hickory woodland.

Nearby Trees: Black Oak, Bitternut Hickory, and Chinkapin Oak.

Dirt easily removed from outer peridium, unlike many others species.

Specimen enveloped in similar colored mycelium.

No smell evident in the field.

Microscopy: mounted in Melzer's reagent.

UV: peridium light green under 365nm.

Collected With No Number.

Nemaha Co. Nebraska

Hypogeous in upland mixed oak/hickory woodland slope. Nearby Trees: Black Oak, Shagbark Hickory, Black Walnut, Bitternut Hickory, Pawpaw, American Hop Hornbeam, Northern Red Oak, and Elm.

UV: endoperidium light green under 365nm light.

Microscopy: first series of shots mounted in Melzer's reagent and last 4 shots mounted in Congo Red.