Hygrophorus perplexus Smith & Hesler Cap 1-3cm across, broadly cone-shaped with the margin curved in to the gills, expanding to broadly bell-shaped or flatter with an obtuse umbo; brownish orange slowly developing a greenish or orangish tinge on the margin, then changing from orange-tan and fading to buff-pink; very slimy and sticky with a translucently lined margin. Gills ascending and adnate with a tooth or expanded depressed -adnate, close to subdistant, broad; amber yellow becoming apricot yellow. Stem 30-50 X 2-5mm, sometimes slightly thicker below; pale watery gray with yellowish-buff base, becoming yellow all over; slimy and sticky all over. Flesh very thin, fragile; same color as cap. Odor slight. Taste none. Spores ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, 6-8 X 4-5µ. Deposit white. Habitat in groups and tufts under aspen and beech on thin sandy soil. Found in Michigan and New Jersey. Season June-August. Edibility not known. Comment My photograph seems to have made the mushrooms look too strongly orange.