Fabulous weather for a walk through the cathedral area of Cook Forest State park surrounded by towering Hemlock trees. A huge range of species were found and identified on this walk with many making their way to the display tables at the Lincoff Memorial foray in North Park the next day or selected for DNA barcoding. Amazingly 26 species new to the club were identified by club mycologists and identifiers. The area is so diverse with fungi that there were still unidentified species on the tables at the end of the day. Walk leader Garrett Taylor also led some smaller expeditions in the afternoon to other areas in the park to pick up a few more species not found in the Hemlock groves.

Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Species identified by Richard Jacob, Judy Mackenroth, John Plischke III, Walt Sturgeon, Garrett Taylor, La Monte Yarroll and others.

List of species found on the walk at Cook Forest State Park:
Abortiporus biennis (),
Amanita abrupta (),
Amanita amerifulva (American Orange-Brown Ringless Amanita),
Amanita amerirubescens (Blusher),
Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
Amanita brunnescens (Cream Colored Cleft-foot Amanita),
Amanita ceciliae (Strangulated Amanita),
Amanita citrina f. lavendula (),
Amanita farinosa (Powder Cap Amanita),
Amanita flavoconia (Yellow Patches),
Amanita rhacopus (Shaggy Sister Ringless Amanita),
Amanita submaculata (),
Aureoboletus innixus (Clustered Brown Bolete),
Austroboletus gracilis (Graceful Bolete),
Baeospora myosura (Conifer Cone Baeospora),
Bisporella citrina (Yellow Fairy Cups),
Boletus pallidus (Pallid Bolete),
Butyriboletus brunneus (),
Calocera cornea (Yellow tuning fork),
Calostoma cinnabarina (Stalked Puffball in Aspic),
Cantharellus lateritius (),
Cantharellus minor (Small Chanterelle),
Cantharellus tenuithrix (American Common Chanterelle; American Golden Chanterelle),
Cantharellus tubaeformis (),
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Coral Slime),
Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Blue-green Stain),
Chlorophyllum molybdites (Green-spored Lepiota),
Clavulina cristata (Crested Coral Fungus),
Clavulinopsis aurantiocinnabarina (Spindle Shaped Orange Coral),
Collybia familia (),
Collybia tuberosa (Tuberous Collybia),
Coprinellus micaceus (Mica Cap),
Cordyceps militaris (Trooping Cordyceps),
Cordyceps ophioglossoides (),
Cortinarius armillatus (Bracelet Cort / Red Banded Cort),
Cortinarius corrugatus (Corrugated Cap Cort),
Cortinarius harrisonii (),
Cortinarius iodes (Iodine Cort / Viscid Violet Cort),
Cortinarius semisanguineus (Red-gilled Cort),
Craterellus fallax (),
Craterellus ignicolor (Flame-colored Chanterelle),
Cuphophyllus pratensis (),
Dacrymyces chrysospermus (Orange Jelly; Witches’ Butter),
Dacryopinax spathularia (Spathula Shapped Yellow Jelly),
Daedalea quercina (Thick-maze Oak Polypore),
Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
Elaphomyces granulatus (),
Fomitopsis pinicola (Red Bealted Polypore),
Fomitopsis spraguei (Green Cheese Polypore),
Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
Ganoderma curtisii (),
Ganoderma tsugae (Hemlock Varnish-shelf),
Gymnopus dryophilus (Oak-loving Collybia),
Gymnopus subnudus (),
Gyroporus castaneus (Chestnut Bolete),
Helminthosphaeria clavariarum (),
Helvella crispa (White Saddle),
Helvella elastica (),
Helvella macropus (),
Hydnellum scrobiculatum (),
Hydnum repandum (Sweet Tooth Hedgehog Fungus),
Hydropus fuliginarius (),
Hygrophorus marginatus (Orange-gilled Waxy-cap),
Hygrophorus miniatus (Fading Scarlet Waxy-cap),
Hypholoma capnoides (),
Hypocrea pulvinata (Polypore hypocrea),
Hypocrea sulphurea (),
Hypomyces armeniacus (),
Hypomyces cervinigenus (),
Hypomyces polyporinus (),
Hypoxylon fragiforme (Red Cushion Fungi),
Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
Ischnoderma benzoinum (),
Laccaria laccata (Common Laccaria; Deceiver Laccaria),
Lactarius chrysorrheus (),
Lactarius cinereus (),
Lactarius corrugis (Corrugated-cap Milky),
Lactarius hygrophoroides (Hygrophorus Milky),
Lactarius lignyotus (),
Lactarius vinaceorufescens (Yellow Latex Milky),
Lactifluus volemus (Fishy Milkcap),
Leccinum longicurvipes (),
Lentinellus ursinus (),
Leotia atrovirens (Green-headed Jelly Club),
Leotia lubrica (Yellow Jelly Babies),
Lycoperdon curtisii (),
Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball),
Marasmius opacus (),
Marasmius scorodonius (Garlic Mushroom),
Morganella pyriformis (Pear-shaped Puffball),
Multiclavula mucida (),
Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
Panellus stipticus (Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster),
Phaeohelotium epiphyllum (),
Phaeolus schweinitzii (Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus),
Phallus ravenelii (Ravenel’s stinkhorn),
Pholiota squarrosoides (),
Phyllotopsis nidulans (Mock Oyster),
Physarum polycephalum (Many-headed slime mold),
Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore),
Pseudoboletus parasiticus (),
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (),
Ramaria stricta (),
Ramariopsis kunzei (),
Rickenella fibula (Orange Moss Agaric),
Russula aeruginea (),
Russula compacta (Firm Russula),
Russula dissimulans (Blushing russula ),
Russula laurocerasi (Almond Scented Russula),
Russula mariae (),
Russula peckii (),
Russula variata (Variegated Russula),
Russula vinacea (),
Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
Sebacina schweinitzii (Jellied False Coral),
Serpula himantioides (),
Sparassis spathulata (),
Stemonitis splendens (Chocolate Tube Slime),
Suillus granulatus (Dotted-stalk Suillus; Granulated Slippery Jack),
Suillus spraguei (Painted Suillus),
Syzygites megalocarpus (),
Tapinella atrotomentosa (Velvet-footed Pax),
Thelephora terrestris (),
Thuemenella cubispora (),
Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
Tricholomopsis sulfureoides (),
Tubifera ferruginosa (Raspberry slime mold),
Tylopilus felleus (Bitter Bolete),
Tylopilus rubrobrunneus (Reddish-Brown Bitter Bolete),
Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore),
Tyromyces fragilis (),
Xanthoconium affine (Spotted Bolete)
Xeromphalina campanella (Fuzzy-foot),
Xerula furfuracea (Rooted Collybia),
Xylaria cornu-damae ()

Species not currently on clubs life list:
Amanita kryorhodon (),
Amanita rooseveltensis (),
Boletopsis grisea (),
Boletus miniato-pallescens (),
Chromelosporium fulvum (),
Clavaria cristata var. laciniata (),
Clavulina ornatipes (),
Cortinarius collinitus (), or Cortinarius mucosus (),
Cortinarius pulchrifolius var. odorifer (),
Cortinarius squamulosus (),
Coryne atrovirens (),
Fomitopsis ochracea (),
Guepinia helvelloides (),
Holwaya mucida (),
Isaria tenuipes (),
Lactarius atroviridis (),
Lactarius nitidus (),
Laetiporus huroniensis (),
Lycoperdon curtisii (),
Postia fragilis (),
Russula ochroleucoides (),
Sebacina concrescens (),
Singerocybe adirondackensis (),
Symphytocarpus trechisporus (),
Tricholoma sublvrem (),
Tricholoma subsejunctum (),

Comments:
Cladonia cristatella, commonly known as the British soldiers lichen