I found a page on Facebook where I uploaded a picture of one of the mushrooms. But I soon found out that you can't completely identify a mushroom with just a picture of its top. You need to stalk and the spore print(?) or the underside of the mushroom cap too. We didn't take pictures of those, so I've put here what we could find on the Internet and the rest are just for you to enjoy!
While reading about these, they said that they weren't sure that these kinds were found very much in North America. But we think it's the closest.
Cortinarius iodes?
Another "Sickener" from the genus Russula - not exactly sure the species.
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Spore prints are so cool. I haven't done them myself because I have an irrational fear of poisonous mushrooms (not knowing which are ok and which are not!). One of my very very very fav blogs is resurrection fern. She has done a lot of spores stuff. Here's some of her posts about it:
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2009/08/not-all-mushrooms-are-alike.html
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2009/08/spore-printing-experiments-continue.html
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2009/08/fairy-rings-on-the-soccer-pitch.html
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2010/08/nature-echoes.html
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2011/09/check-it-out.html
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