Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Cooke 1884

Laccaria amethystea (Bull.) Murrill
Agaricus amethystinus Bolt. Hist. Fung. Halifax 41. 1788. Not A. amethystinus Scop. 1772.
Agaricus amethysteus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 198. 1784.
Pileus thin, broadly convex, umbilicate or centrally depressed, solitary or gregarious, 1.2-2.5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, brown or violaceous-brown when moist, grayish when dry, unpolished; lamellae subdistant, adnate or decurrent, violaceous, color more persistent than in the pileus; spores globose, verruculose, 8-10 n; stipe slender, equal, flexuous, hollow, concolorous or paler, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: France. Habitat: Damp ground in shaded places.
Distribution: Eastern temperate North America; also in Europe.

Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. V. 12
370. 1883.
Agaricus laccatus Scop, Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 2: 444. 1772. Clitocybe laccata Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 55. 1872.
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes umbilicate or centrally depressed, solitary, gregarious or cespitose, 1.2-5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, glabrous, furfuraceous or minutely squamulose, pale-red, buff-red or flesh-red when moist, pale-ochraceous, grayish or buff when dry, margin smooth; lamellae rather broad, thick, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, flesh^colored or pale flesh-colored; spores globose, verruculose, 8-10 /z; stipe long or short, nearly or quite equal, fibrous, firm, straight or flexuous, stuffed, concolorous, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick.
Type locality: Carniola.
Habitat : Woods, groves, swamps, mossy places and pastures in wet, dry or sandy soil and even in sphagnum.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan.