Deadly Galerina

Description:

Cap: 1-4 cm; convex or nearly flat, sometimes slightly bell-shaped; slimy when fresh or wet, otherwise sticky or dry; smooth; brown to tawny brown, sometimes fading to yellowish or tan; the margin finely lined (when fresh and moist). Gills: Attached to the stem or even running slightly down it--but sometimes pulling away from the stem in age; close; yellowish at first, eventually becoming rusty brown or brownish as the spores mature; not bruising. Stem: 2-10 cm long; 3-6 mm thick; more or less equal; typically curving when growing in clusters; dry; hollow; finely shaggy below; when young with a whitish partial veil covering the gills--later with a ring that is often fragile and collapsed, or with a ring zone (though specimens are sometimes found in which all evidence of the partial veil has disappeared); the ring white at first but soon dusted with rusty brown spores; whitish, darkening below in age; sometimes with whitish mycelial threads. Flesh: Insubstantial; watery brown. Odor: Mild or slightly mealy (crush the flesh between your fingers). Spore Print: Rusty brown.