Phlegmacium     Subgenus

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Gills not free
Spore print tan, orange, deep ochre, yellowish olive, olive brown, rusty or cinnamon brown or deep brown
Ring usually either absent or not membranous

Growing on the ground

Cortinarius     Genus With a cobwebby partial veil called a cortina Stem often much wider at the base Spore print usually rusty brown or cinnamon brown

Links from Look-alikes Blewit     Section Spore print pinkish buff Fruiting body often with some purple coloration, although this tends to be less, the larger the fruiting body is Cap smooth, margin wavy, usually inrolled even after the cap has fully expanded Flesh hygrophanous (usually all the way through the cap), often with a slightly soapy look and feel to it (wet your finger first to get the full effect)

Phlegmacium     Subgenus     Fries

Diagnosis

• Only the cap is slimy/sticky
  
• Stem often bulbous at the base; basal bulb often with a sharp rim

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 3" across; bluish silver, virgate
Gills purple until covered with spores
Stem purple above the cortina, bluish below, swelling gently to the base, which is white with yellow areas below its widest point
Found under oak

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