Hygrophorus purpureofolius Bigelow Cap 1-5cm across, broadly bell-shaped becoming more convex then flat, with an incurved margin that sometimes becomes rather wavy in age; dark reddish orange when young, becoming a little more orange and sometimes paler in mature specimens; surface smooth, moist, and watery-looking becoming opaque. Gills broadly adnate to decurrent, close to subdistant, broad, waxy; mauvy-lavender to purple, then yellowish in age. Stem 25-70 x 4-9mm, hollow, brittle, compressed with a groove, curved, slightly enlarged toward the base; same color as cap, fading to whitish or yellowish. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 7-11 x 4-5.5µ. Deposit white. Habitat numerous or growing in dense tufts on humus in mixed woods, particularly maple. Infrequent. Found only in Massachusetts, as far as I know. Season August. Edibility not known. Comment The gills in my photograph only show a hint of lavender color.