One of the more difficult things when trying to identify a mushroom for a beginner is getting an idea of where to start looking in a book to identify it, if we can at least whittle it down to a family it will help them, hopefully, to make a positive ID.

I think it's been said on here before that a picture from the top alone is no good although important as we need to know it's habitat, we also need one showing the underneath, one that shows the shape of the stem right down to the bottom and one of the whole thing cut in half.