HEY! ANOTHER ONE!

I found another mushroom/toadstool while out walking. All alone it was and someone had already picked it, then tossed it. From my searching on the Internet, it appears to be a Dark Fieldcap. Well-named! It may be edible, but Internet says to avoid it, since it can be mistaken for a poisonous variety.  And I want to keep on blogging....

Etymology

Not all fieldcap fungi occur in open fields, and the Dark Fieldcap is definitely a mushroom of field margins, hedgerows, woodlands and other shady places near trees. 'Fieldcap' is derived from Agro-, of fields, and -cybe, head or cap, and is therefore a direct translation of the generic name Agrocybe. The specific epithet erebia simply means 'dark'.

Identification guide

Cap 4 to 7cm across, hemispherical becoming broadly umbonate; the mid to dark brown cap surface usually pales somewhat towards the margin but does not fade, as other fieldcaps do, at maturity.