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Not anything I recognize from my neck of the woods. But showing the white spore print provides some good info; it eliminates many possible ID proposals.

My guess is these represent a species of Clitocybe. Here's a species that's reported as common in western NA  http://www.mushroomexpert.com/clitocybe_gigantea.html  Here's another suggestion http://www.mushroomexpert.com/clitocybe_nebularis.html  One thing that bothers me about proposing these species of large whitish/grayish Clitocybes is the gill attachment. Photos seem to show gills that are not tapered/decurrent, but rather subdecurrent with an abrupt margin. 

Leucopaxillus seems like another possibility for the genus. Any unusual odor? Does the layer of gills easily peel away from the rest of the cap? 

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Thanks for the reply Dave. I believe you might be correct about them being clitocybe. The article described these almost to the T. Although the pictures I saw looked slightly different. The odor was pungent, foul I guess you would say. The gills do not separate easily from the cap. And they definitely were hard to pick, without them crumbling in my hand. 

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