Mycena mushrooms

With the weather remaining relatively warm and wet, it should really come as no surprise that mushrooms decided to emerge from mycelial hiding. This pretty little group—the largest caps are barely half-an-inch across—came out of a cleft in a well-rotted oak stump, and after plucking a few of the gems and obtaining a spore print, which was white, I started to comb through the pages of Timothy Baroni's Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. I thought I'd hit taxonomic pay dirt in the Arrhenia pages, but when I wrote to Dr. Tim for confirmation, the good professor suggested that I needed to bark up the Mycena tree. What I truly required to make a positive ID was a good microscope, and since I don't have one... yet... Mycena is going to have to be good enough.