Well, your post inspired me to go take a walk out in the woods today...
I found some laccarias, hygrophorus, lactarius, galerinas and mycenas. Now I have always struggled with telling laccaria amethystea and laccaria laccata apart. Seems like their colors depned a lot on the time of year or maturity of the specimens. The shapes of the two species are pretty much identical. The temperature and conditions also seem to effect them. During the late summer-fall months, this mushroom seems to have a more of a pink/violet color, while the other deciever is more tawny/pale red fading to almost a light brown or orange. I believe that at certain stages they look identical. The caps of the laccaria laccata deciever get bigger in age typically.
Well either way they are both considered just about the same from the edible point of view.. So I might be up for sampling these. My trip to the woods got cut off short as the sun began to set and i headed home, thus I cant take good pics untill tommorow but I will attempt to get an indoor image. I will be making a post to report todays findings.