Tunica monroeae

A lovely bright start to the day, sadly it didn't last and now the clouds have gathered. Wandering through the dunes I came across this little beauty strutting its stuff in the morning sun. With nothing much else to think about, I began to wonder what name I should give it, if perchance it turned out to be a species new to science. Bearing in mind that the best scientific names are in some way descriptive, I decided on Tunica monroeae, to be commonly known as the seven year itch mushroom.

If you are wondering why, then this might help explain my reasoning.
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This wouldn't be the first species to be named after Ms Monroe. The palaeontologist Richard Fortey named a fossil trilobyte Norasaphus monroeae because of the hour glass shape of its glabella, part of its head segment.