Mushroom- One to eat, One not to eat.

Common Name: Veiled Oyster

Width of Cap: 1 1/2- 4 inches

Cap: Convex at first, becoming more or less flattened, margin inrolled, often ragged with partial veil remnants; White to cream or pale yellow; surface cottony to scaly in the center, especially evident in older specimens; flesh thick and tough, odor usually pleasant, somewhat anise-like or sour in older specimens

Gills: Decurrent, sub-distant to moderately close; white to cream or yellowish

Stalk: More or less equal or enlarged downward, central to eccentric, at times nearly lateral; whitish, velvety, with a thin cottony to membranous ring on the upper stalk that becomes inconspicuous or may disappear with age. 

Spore Print: White
Occurance: Solitary or in small clusters on logs, stumps, and trunks of broad-leaved trees, also on trunks of living trees; saprobic; summer-fall; occasional

Edibility: Edible

Common Name: Hornemann's Stropharia; Lacerated Stropharia

Width of Cap: 2-5 inches 

Cap: Convex to broadly bell-shaped, becoming flattened with age, often with a broad umbo; color variable from cinnamon-brown or reddish brown to dingy yellowish brown, often tinged violet, and olivaceous gray on the margin; surface smooth and viscid, with scattered whitish fragments of a partial veil at the margin, at least when young, flesh white to pale yellowish, odor and taste not distinctive.

Gills: Adnate, sometimes with slightly decurrent lines at the stalk apex, moderately close; whitish at first, becoming smoky purplish gray, but gill edges remaining white. 

Stalk: Equal; whitish, covered with dense cottony scales from the base upward to a persistent flaring membranous ring, smooth above the ring, base with white cord-like rhizomorphs.

Spore Print: Purple-brown
Occurance: Sometimes solitary but more often in groups on or around well-decayed logs and stumps of conifer wood, also reported to occur on wet mossy ground; saprobic; late summer-fall; uncommon

Edibility: Not Edible