Mycena pura (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer Rettich-Helmling Mycène pur Lilac Bonnet. Cap 2–5cm across, rather variable in size, convex with a broad umbo, varying shades of lilac or pink, lined at margin when moist, paler when dry. Stem 50–100 x 4–10mm, rigid, flushed pink, base covered in fine white fibres, Flesh white. Taste mild, smell radishy. Gills adnate, pink. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia bottle-shaped. Spore print white. Spores subcylindric, amyloid, 6–8 x 3.5–4um. Habitat in beech litter. Season summer to winter. Common. Said to be edible -avoid. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, America and Europe.