1,3&4 appear to be Clitocybe nebularis. 2=Lepiota rhacodes. 5 Most interesting!! BUT TELL ME MORE!!!!!!!! (washed up jelly fish?) Please remember to SHOW top and bottom, how stem is atatched to substrate, how gills atatched to stem, young and old specimens if poss, is it close to a tree and which,plus any smell or taste. Only microscopic examination can confirm. Neil Mahler.

Not a jellyfish (Stanton is about 10miles NE of Bury St.Edmunds). There were two or three specimens in a flowerbed near a honeysuckle, and about a month earlier a large cluster beneath a Viburnum growing on a lawn. The diameter of the fruitbodies was about 2-3 cm. They were only present for a day or two. They had a soft gelatinous texture, a bit like Tremella mesenterica, but perhaps more resembling Bulgaria inquinans in appearance, so perhaps a rather primitive fungus, so no stem or gills, or obvious attachment to substrate.

Only joking about the jellyfish coz I've no idea what it is! I'm not familiar with any jelly like fungi which appear on bare soil. If you see any more take a few and dry in an airing cupboard and place in a sealable sandwitch type bag and get in touch with me again and I may have to send it on to the real experts at Kew. Make sure samples are thoroughly dry otherwise secondary mould will develope and mess things up. NM.

Further to my last message, No's 1,3 could be a Tricoloma sp even, as they do not seem stout enough realy for Clouded agaric. As for the blob, I'm begining to doubt if it is a fungus at all as you have made no mention of spores apearing in it's short life cycle but it's a minor detail. NM.

Further to my last message, No's 1,3 could be a Tricoloma sp even, as they do not seem stout enough realy for Clouded agaric. As for the blob, I'm begining to doubt if it is a fungus at all as you have made no mention of spores apearing in it's short life cycle but it's a minor detail. NM.