Spore print "light-colored": white or buff, sometimes tinged with pink or tan. Greenish and (except for the Russulales) yellow spore prints also go here
Stalk fibrous, not fracturing like a piece of chalk
Gills (at least) with a distinct waxy or silky feel, due to unusually long basidia
No annulus, armilla or volva Cap often slimy
They tend to grow in cold areas, and sometimes fruit at times when it's too cold for other mushrooms
Several have an insulating slimyuniversal veil. This veil leaves the cap and the stalk slimy, except for the upper stalk where the gills covered it when the mushroom was a button.
Cap up to 3" across; white; viscid; covered with golden granules when young; margininrolled at first, shaggy Gillsdecurrent; distant; white, with edges sometimes powdered yellow
With conifers
Cap up to 4" across; very slimy; pale buff or pale yellow on the disk, whitening towards the margin; margininrolled when young Gillsdecurrent; subdistant; white (sometimes tinged with pink), becoming yellowish in age
Stalk white; very slimy except at the top
Under spruce and pine
Cap up to 3" across; slimy; greyish brown to dark olive brown when fresh, the margin changing in age to a lighter olive brown, yellowish green, buff, orange, or scarlet (!); margin sometimes virgate, according to Lincoff(1987) Gills and stalk yellowish
Stalk slimy except at the top
Cap up to 4 1/2" across; pale pink to pinkish buff, sometimes with pale salmon tinges; viscid when moist Odor and taste sometimes like turpentine Gills usually subdecurrent; white or pale cap color
Stalk white or concolorous with cap; tacky; top with scurfy white stuff that darkens reddish in age or on drying and quickly turn golden in KOH
Usually under spruce; but also found under hemlock and in bogs
Cap up to 5" across; pink to purplish red; tacky at first but soon drying; margin white and inrolled at first, often wavy in age; developing purplish streaks or stains in age
Stalk and gills white at first, developing coloration like cap
Usually under oak
Cap up to 2" across, hygrophanous; mainly some shade of lilac or pink, but perhaps with a little yellow, grey or blue mixed in as well Odor and taste radish-like
Scattered or in small groups on forest litter