Hygrophorus nitidus Berk. & Curt. Cap 1-4cm across, broadly convex or flattened with a depressed disc and incurved margin; evenly apricot yellow or primrose yellow fading to pale creamy or whitish yellow; smooth and sticky with a striate margin. Gills arcuate then long decurrent, subdistant to distant, narrow becoming moderately broad, waxy; pale yellow, sometimes with deeper yellow edges. Stem 30-80 x 2-5mm, hollow, fragile, sometimes slightly larger at the top; same color as cap; dry, smooth, and hairless. Flesh very thin, soft, fragile; yellowish. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 7-9.2 x 5.2-5.9ì. Deposit white. Habitat scattered to gregarious on humus in wet, mossy areas under hardwoods; also in bogs. Uncommon. Found in eastern North America and Washington. Season July-November. Edibility not known. Comment The faded white color with the yellow edge to the cap is a distinctive characteristic.