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Table of Contents
Name changes and minor typographical corrections
Update #1 - August 27, 2024
Update #2 - March 7, 2025 - Three additions
Name changes:
Page 42 lead 2a & Page 164, lead 172b: Clavariadelphus truncatus is now Clavariadelphus truncatus PNW02 (3/7/2025)
Page 180: Collybia tarda has been returned to Lepista tarda
Page 181: Collybia glaucocana has been returned to Lepista glaucocana
Page 181: Collybia irina var. luteospora to Lepista luscina
Page 185: Collybia deceptiva should have been left as Clitocybe deceptiva
Page 185: Collybia fragrans should have been left as Clitocybe fragrans
Page 209, lead 242a: Chromosera ‘cyanophila’ is now Chromosera loreleiae (3/7/2025)
Page 224: Hygrophorus parvirussula is actually an unnamed look-alike H. parvirussula PNW11
Page 232: Russula basifurcata is represented by more than one look-alike oak associate
Page 240: Lactarius alpinus var. mitis was changed to L. alpinus but is L. cuspidoaurantiacus
Page 39 and 249: The Calyptella capula image was a fist example of a new Arrhenia species Arrhenia PNW14
Page 278: While Cortinarius has been split into numerous new genera, some argue that more study was needed before the split and rearrangements are expected
Page 280: Cortinarius rubellus was correct in first edition and my move to Aureonarius was incorrect
Page 302, lead 401b: Deconica coprophila is now Conocybula coprophila (3/7/2025)
Page 318: Collybia diatreta should have been left as Clitocybe diatreta
Page 268: Pholiota flammans PNW04 replaces P. flammans
Typos:
Page 46: Period missing in “C. roseocanus” 7 lines from bottom of comments
Page 94: first line of comments, correct the spelling to “mcmurphyi”
Page 94: The correct spelling is “ellisii” – two places
Page 104: In the comments section, the correct spelling is “benzoinum”
Page 117: The correct spelling for the image title is “erikssonii”
Page 180, lead 197a. Remove the extraneous “(three images)”
Note: No spelling typos identified (so far at least) in the index.
More details in Michael's iNat Observations
April 9, 2025 Updates to i-Naturalist Observations
Addition - Candolleomyces candolleanus 03mwb032925 illustrated in lead 412a page310, iNat 267827153
Addition - Cortinarius sp 01mwb032925 NEW SPECIES, iNat 267829169
Added comment - Lentaria epichnoa Typhula sp. 02mwb103121, Unresolved genus, LSU match to Lentaria albovinacea
Addition - Plicaria endocarpoides 01mwb032825 lead 50b page 80, iNat 267828795
Addition - Trametes hirsuta 02mwb032925 NEW SPECIES, iNat 267826832
