Characteristics: Brown plane cap; brown sub-distant short gills; equal stipe; spore print is white (I think...there wasn't a print there when I looked in the morning so I'm assuming it blended in with the white sheet).
2. Unknown
Characteristics: Chestnut-colored plane cap; white sub-distant short gills; equal stipe; cinnamon-brown spore print
Other Notes: I think this is some kind of Cortinarius mushroom, but I can't find one with white gills. The spore print matches the description, though.
3. Crepidotus Applanatus
Other Notes: I thought this was an Oyster Mushroom, but the spore print confirms it is not. Oyster Mushrooms have lilac or beige spore prints where this one was a darkish brown. Unknown edibility...though one internet source says no deaths have been attributed to this mushroom.
4. Polyporus Leptocepholus
Characteristics: Brown umbilicate cap; pores instead of gills; leathery and hard; black on the bottom part of the stipe, with the black streaking closer to the cap.
Other Notes: Inedible.
5. Crucibulum Vulgare (Bird's Nest)
Characteristics: Infudibuliform grey-brown cap; spores resembling eggs inside; immature fungi is closed at the top.
Other Notes: This was the easiest to identify. Inedible.
6. Lycoperdon Perlatum
Characteristics: Spiky-brownish-yellow cap; appears to be another mushroom inside when cross-sected (looks like a cross-section of a brain); thick, scaly stipe.
Other Notes: This mushroom doesn't exactly match the pictures of this species. Most of the 'puffballs' do not have a division between the cap and the stipe. If this is a lycoperdon perlatum then it is edible...
