This species is almost certainly the White Dapperling, Leucoagaricus leucothites. I do not think that the common name is actually used for this frequently encountered species.
It turns a pinkish-buff with age, so the brownish species looks like the same one.
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October 2004
A
white mushroom was discovered amongst
the Horseshoe Vetch on the lower slopes of
Mill
Hill. This is the one with a ring.
Thery
are about the size of a commercial mushroom. e.g. variable, with an estimated
diameter up to 55 mm. It did not smell of anything. It had a texture
similar to a commercial mushroom.
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September 2004
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This is in original chalkhill herbland, mostly amongst Horseshoe Vetch. This is not pasture, nor meadow.
I have tentatively identified this one as a species of Lepiota. The trouble is there are 59 species of Lepiota in Britain, although not all of them are white. It could be Lepiota leucothites.
I do not know if the other white species is the same mushroom that has lost its ring and looks tatty as it gets older.
I am
not quite sure if the following mushrooms are the same species of mushroom,
where the stem ring has disappeared and they have turned brownish?
They were found nearby in a location near rabbit warrens and on grass.
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