parasol mushroom

Description:

Fragile, parasol mushroom with white gills, thin annulus (ring), cap with brown powdery scales in a dark spot in the center and dusted outwards over white. White stem.

Habitat:

On soil (may have been some woody debris mixed in.)

Notes:

What's always intrigued me about this mushroom is the clear yellowish fluid beads of moisture on the lower stem. They pretty much all have them; it's not due to rain. We used to have them just outside our outhouse door, and one couldn't help ruminate about why those yellow drops were there on the pristine white stem. I called it "the outhouse mushroom", and was sorely tempted to use that as the "common name" here; many "common names" of mushrooms given in guides seem kind of capricious to me.