Mt. Tam mushrooms

So I was a lazy rock climber today and drove out to the coast to look for mushrooms instead.  I didn't feel like suffering at Jailhouse again for 2 pitches in sub 40 degree weather.  So shoot me.  Instead I drove out to the coast and looked for mushrooms.  It gave me plenty of time to ponder what a nerd I am - right before my 31st birthday. Ugh. Here are some photos and descriptions of the things that I found. Mushrooms Demystified (MD) offered some information.

Dyer's polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii), otherwise known as Red-brown Butt Rot (I'm not kidding). MD: "it is prized by dye-makers for the rich and varied hues it imparts to yarn." When I start growing goats and making yarn, I'll use this to dye it.

These funky little puffballs were pretty cool. I'm not sure which species they are.

I don't know what these are and it annoys me. Maybe they are Corinarias? They don't have that cobwebby stuff on the stipe though. I really don't know.

Black witches' butter (Exidia glandulosa). According to Mushrooms Demystified, "This sinister-looking black jelly fungus can be confused with little else."

Hericium ramosum or H. abietis. It is edible, and supposedly delicious, but I let it be. I'd seen photos of this before; it was much tinier and more delicate than I was expecting.

Emetic russula. Possibly R. sivicola. This is the name given to a group of mushrooms. MD: "pleasing to the eyes of all, to the tongues of some, but to the stomachs of none." Ostensibly it is also collected in the Himalayas to add spice to curries (MD p. 98)

Yellow-veiled amanita (Amanita franchetii), I think.

Several of the slippery jack/bolete ilk.

Not sure, but they are pretty.

I don't know what these are, but I think they are different kinds of russulas.

Sulfur tufts

 Yellow coral mushrooms (Ramaria sp.) Maybe this?

salmon coral (Ramaria sp.) Ramaria stricta? or Ramaria violaceibrunnea?

Western Amethyst Laccaria (Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis) - at least that's what I think.

California agaric - (Agaricus californicus). This was my first successful key from MD.

Matustake? (Tricholoma magnivelare) This is my first matsutake (if it is)...worth big bucks when young. Unfortunately this is definitely not a youngster.

 Fluted black elfin saddle (Helvella lacunosa). I brought a bunch of these back home with the intention of eating them. We'll see if I get around to it.

 I found some sun!  This made it all worth it. I got sunburned from being in the sun for a few hours.  That shows you how grim it's been in California lately.

Banana slugs like mushrooms too.