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	Boletus subtomentosus
	Synonym: Xerocomus subtomentosus (Fries) Quélet

	Boletus truncatus
	Pileus Cap 5-10 cm broad, convex, broadly convex to nearly plane in age; surface dry, tomentose, brown to olive-brown, usually cracking early in development revealing underlying yellowish to pinkish tissue, the latter more prevalent toward the margin; flesh thick, light yellow, blueing irregularly when injured; odor mild, taste acidic.

	Boletus zelleri
	Pileus Cap 4-11 cm broad, convex, nearly plane at maturity; brown to blackish-brown, velvety, smooth to uneven, with a whitish bloom when young, occasionally aereolate in age; flesh pallid to yellowish, sometimes bruising blue.

	Bovista aestivalis
	Synonyms: Lycoperdon aestivalis Bonord.

Bovista californica

Sporocarp
Fruiting body small, 5-15 (20) mm broad, subglobose to compressed globose, sessile, attached to the substrate by a tuft of soil-encrusting mycelium; exoperidium thin, white, flocculose, fragmenting in age (except apically), leaving tiny pallid to buff-colored scales over a dull-brown, papery endoperidium; spores released via a small, raised apical pore; gleba brown in age, elastic; subgleba and sterile base absent; odor and taste not determined.

Bovista pila

Sporocarp
Fruiting body 4.0-7.0 cm broad, globose to slightly compressed, lacking a sterile base, attached to the substrate via a white mycelial cord; peridium thin, <1.0 mm thick; exoperidium white, glabrous to matted-tomentose, becoming dingy-tan, occasionally squamulose to areolate, eventually dark-brown to mahogany-brown; exoperidium persistent, often present at maturity, gradually peeling away, absent only in weathered material; endoperidum metallic-grey, sometimes patchy bronze-brown to purple-brown where overlain with remnants of exoperidium; gleba white, turning olivaceous, then dark-brown to slightly purplish at maturity, texture firm; spores released via apical cracks and tears; sterile base and subgleba absent; odor and taste mild.

Bovista plumbea

Sporocarp
Fruiting body 1.5-3.5 cm broad, globose to slightly compressed, attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium; exoperidium white, glabrous, becoming buff to pale-tan and minutely tomentose, sometimes areolate; exoperidium flaking away, or peeling off in sheets, the latter typical of maturation in hot, dry conditions; endoperidium membranous, lead-grey, with or without adhering fragments of exoperidium; spores released via a small apical pore; gleba white, turning dingy yellowish, olive-brown, finally dark-brown, firm-textured; subgleba and sterile base absent.

	Brain Mushroom: Gyromitra esculenta
	Common Names: false morel, rain mushroom, beefsteak morel Synonym: Helvella esculenta Fries

	Brauniellua albipes
	Synonym: Brauniellula nancyae A.H. Sm.; Secotium albipes Zeller

	Brown Witch's Butter: Tremella foliacea
	Sporocarp Fruiting body 5-15 cm broad, globose to cushion-shaped, a mass of ruffled, leaf-like blades fused to a common base; surface viscid in wet weather, otherwise moist, individual blades variously wrinkled to folded, upper and lower surfaces fertile; color: dull brownish-vinaceous to cinnamon-brown, darkening in age; context thin, somewhat translucent, rubbery; odor and taste mild.

	Bulgaria inquinans
	Common Name: black jelly drops Synonym: Phaeobulgaria inquinans (Persoon) Nannfeldt

	Byssonectria terrestris
	Habitat Gregarious to crowded on soil and duff where animals have urinated; montane; spring.

	Calbovista subsculpta
	Common Name: Puffball

	Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum
	California Fungi—Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum

	Calocera cornea
	Sporocarp Fruiting body erect, slender, cylindrical strands, usually unbranched, 1.0-1.5 cm tall, approximately 1 mm thick at the base, tapered to a narrow, obtuse tip, single or several fused to a common base; surface more or less glabrous, viscid when moist, yellow to yellow-orange; context stiff-gelatinous; odor and taste mild.

Calocybe carnea

Pileus
Cap 1.5-3.0 cm broad, convex, becoming plano-convex, the disc occasionally depressed in age; margin when young, incurved, then decurved to plane, frequently wavy; surface when fresh, pinkish to vinaceous-brown, a whitish bloom sometimes evident near the margin, the cap typically glabrous at maturity, often fading to a watery tan-brown; context thin, firm, translucent pinkish-tan, unchanging; odor not distinctive; taste somewhat pungent, disagreeable.

Calocybe onychina

Pileus
Cap 3-5 cm broad, convex, expanding to plano-convex, with or without a low umbo; margin incurved, then decurved, plane to slightly upturned, frequently wavy; surface lavender-purple to vinaceous-purple; when fresh, minutely tomentose (use hand lens), in age blotched shades of purple and brown, eventually entirely brown; context up to 1.0 cm thick, soft, cream-colored, unchanging or darkening slightly; odor mild to slightly farinaceous; taste latently farinaceous to bitter.

	Caloscypha fulgens
	Sporocarp Fruiting body 0.5-3.5 (5.0) cm broad, cupulate, elongate, to variously lobed, sometimes nearly flat in age, sessile to short stipitate; margin incurved, then straight, even to eroded; exterior surface dull yellow to yellowish-orange, bruising bluish-green to olive, especially near the margin; hymenial surface yellow-orange to orange, glabrous.

	Calvatia booniana
	Common Name: Western Giant Puffball

	Calvatia cyathiformis f. fragilis
	Common Name: purple-spored puffball

	Calvatia fumosa: Handkea fumosa
	Synonyms: Calvatia fumosa Zeller; Gastropila fumosa (Zeller) P. Ponce de León

Calvatia pachyderma

Sporocarp
Fruiting body subglobose, cushion-shaped, to turbinate, 6.0-11.0 cm tall, 7.0-13.0 cm broad, abruptly tapered towards the base, sometimes with a root-like attachment to the substrate; exoperidium persistent, thin, less than 1.0 mm thick, glabrous, pallid to pale greyish-tan, basal area dull purple-brown in age; endoperidium 2.0-3.0 mm thick, punky, brittle; gleba cream-colored, then ochre, eventually dull yellowish-brown, occasionally tinged olive, powdery; subgleba and sterile base absent; fruiting body opening by splits or polygonal fractures; odor of mushrooms; taste untried.

	Calvatia sculpta
	Common Name: Sculpted puffball Synonym: Lycoperdon sculptum Harkness

	Calvatia subcretacea: Handkea subcretacea
	Synonyms: Calvatia subcretacea Zeller; Gastropila subcretacea (Zeller) P. Ponce de León

	Calvatia utriformis: Handkea utriformis
	Common Name: Puffball Synonyms: Calvatia bovista (Pers.) Kambly & Lee; Calvatia utriformis (Bull.: Pers.) Jaap

	Camarophyllus pratensis
	Pileus Fruiting body 3-7 cm broad, convex, expanding to nearly plane, slightly umbonate; margin entire or wavy; surface moist, smooth, pale orange to apricot-orange, sometimes spotted darker orange, fading when dry to pale-peach and becoming slightly fibrillose; flesh thick at the disc, otherwise thin, white, unchanging; odor mild, soap-like in one form; taste mild.

	Camarophyllus russocoriaceus
	Pileus Cap 1.5 -3.5 cm broad, convex, the margin slightly undulate in age, faintly striate; surface moist, smooth, hygrophanous, ivory to pallid, fading from the disc toward the margin, the latter often slightly darker; flesh thin, pallid, unchanging; odor of cedar; taste, mild.

Candy Cap: Lactarius rubidus

Pileus
Cap 1.5-4.5 cm broad, convex with a slightly inrolled margin when young, becoming nearly plane, occasionally with a small umbo but more typically with a depressed disc, the margin wavy and sometimes upturned in age; surface smooth to faintly furrowed, rusty-brown, azonate; flesh thin, brittle, pale buff-brown, unchanging, bleeding a watery latex when cut; taste mild; odor faintly of brown sugar or butterscotch.

Cannon Fungus: Sphaerobolus stellatus

Sporocarp
Fruiting body globose, in age, cup-shaped, 2-3 mm broad, usually erumpent from a lignicolous substrate, occasionally developing from a pallid, surface mycelial layer; outer cup surface (peridial layer) cream-buff to ochraceous, matted tomentose, pliant, soon splitting, forming 5-7 short lobes; inner-most peridial layer translucent, tinged yellow, surrounding a glebal mass (peridiole), at maturity suddenly everting, ejecting a dark-brown, sticky peridiole; remnants of the inner peridial layer, inflated, balloon-like, briefly remaining attached to the lobe tips; in age the cups whitish and empty.

	Cantharellus californicus
	Common Name: chanterelle

	Cantharellus cibarius
	Pileus Cap 3-11 cm broad, peg to vase-shaped, the disc frequently depressed but not funnelform; margin incurved, wavy, in age decurved, plane, to upturned; surface smooth or with appressed hairs, dry, yellow to golden-yellow, fading in age; flesh yellowish, thick, firm; odor faintly fruity, taste mild.

	Cantharellus formosus
	Common Name: Chanterelle

	Cantharellus subalbidus
	Pileus Cap 5-10 cm broad, convex, margin incurved, expanding to nearly plane or depressed at the disc with an uplifted, wavy to irregular margin; surface smooth to appressed squamulose, dry, whitish to cream, bruising yellowish-brown to tawny-brown; flesh thick, whitish, firm, becoming ochraceous to tawny where exposed. Odor and taste mild.

	Cantharellus tubaeformis: Craterellus tubaeformis
	Pileus Cap 2-4 cm broad, at first convex, then depressed, sometimes hollow in the center, trumpet-shaped; margin incurved, wavy; surface dry, brown to yellowish-brown, with fine dark scales; flesh thin, yellowish-brown; odor and taste mild.

	Cantharocybe gruberi
	Synonym: Clitocybe guberi A. H. Smith