Inocybe fastigiella G. F. Atk. 1918

Inocybe fastigiella Atk. Am. Jour. Bot. 5: 211. 1918
Inocybe rimosa Rjcken, Blatterp. Deutschl. 111. 1911. Not /. rimosa Pat. 1887. Inocybe brunnescens Atk, Am. Jour. Bot, S: 211. 1918. Not I. brunnescens Earle, 1904.
Pileus slightly fleshy, o void-campanula te, then expanded-umbonate, 2-5 (-6) cm. broad; surface dry, innately fibrillose, sometimes slightly laceratescaly, radially rimose, Proutsbrown (R) to tawny-olive (R), becoming clay-colored (R), drying darker, the umbo sepia (R), obtuse; margin at length split or repand; context white or pallid; lamellae sinuate-adnexed or almost free, narrow, crowded, scarcely ventricose, pallid at first, then avellaneous to cinereousclay-colored, darker with age, the edges white-fimbriate; stipe equal above the subbulbous base, slightly fibrillose, glabrescent, solid, often curved downward, whitish, brunnescent with age, white-pruinose, at the apex white within, 4—8 cm. long, 4—7 mm. thick; spores subreniform, shortellipsoid, smooth, 7-9 (-10) X 4.5-5.5 p; cystidia none; sterile celte clavate-
saccate, on the edges of the lamellae.
Type LOCALITY: Ithaca, New York.
Habitat: On the groimd in low frondose or mixed woods.
Distribution: New England to North Carolina, and Alabama, and westward to Michigan and