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Mature spores 20-21 x 13.5-14 µm.

8 spores per Asci, Asci 190-230 x 13.5-14.5 µm.
Cystidia had color change when Melzer's reagent was added to the 5%KOH on the slide. At first it seemed to look blueish, but before I could get a photo, it ended up a more intense golden-yellow from the slightly reddish brown color as seen in the first two micro photos.

With a rare example of a healthy estuary habitat, a survey of the chytrids here may be of interest and help provide an understanding to the healthy microbiome of the Anura (primarily Pseudocris regilla) in the area. These were living in the hairs of a Scutellinia, one small cross section revealed a dozen of them, both male and female gametangia present.

I found this bee lying on its back on a large rock, not quite dead. When I flipped it over, I saw the filament sticking out of its mesosoma. Zombie fungus?!

This observation is for the fungus(?). The observation for the bee is in this obs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116006450

The initial ID is just a guess.

In area with cottonwood, willow and ash (no conifers). Microscopy shows asci and paraphyses relative placement and size, paraphyses shape and color, spores, fairly clear cells from the excipulum, all at 400x. Spore size 16.25-17.5 x 12.5-13.5 microns.

Lactarius deliciosus olivaceosordidus GROUP:
After a note from PinonBistro regarding the fact that none of our USA collections have yet to be placed/match for any variety of L. deliciosus group and hairs are being split even further. For my herbarium label I made this still as “L. deliciosus group” for categorizing purposes and future mailing/sequencing. Until things are cleared up in the future I plan to continue labeling my collections of these coastal, bright orange, large/dark green staining Lactarius(that aren’t L. rubrilacteus) as such. As long as I have them bagged and catalogued correctly in my herbarium and can get to them easily it is far simpler(rather than just labeling them Lactarius).
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/477104?q=1kd3K

Growing on a partially dead Sambucus racemosa trunk, the ozonium stretches over 2 meters along this trunk and can be observed year round.
Oddly, this out of season flush seemed to be triggered by my probing fingers when a week earlier I had posted an iNat obs of the winter fruit bodies (see: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/81033505 ) and posting that I decided to get clearer photos of the ozonium..every grouping seen in these photos are growing from (and only from) an excavated area that I had created a week earlier.
I did also get some time-lapse coverage of some of these, though iNat doesn't support video?

On decaying sedge debris in a marsh. Sclerotia were not obvious. Spores sausage shaped, 8-9.5 x 1.5-2.3 (much smaller and thinner than S. sulcata). Asci roughly 45-50 x 4-5. Paraphyses narrow and thread-like, not obviously enlarged at tips.