Clitocybe nobilis Peck 1907

Clitocybe nobilis Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 97. 1907
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, sometimes becoming slightly centrally depressed, often broadly umbonate, solitary or gregarious, 7-12 cm. broad; surface dry, glabrous, creamy-white, becoming buff or brownish with age or in drying, often darker at the center : context white, the taste and odor agreeable; lamellae thin, crowded, decurrent, whitish: spores ellipsoid, 7-8 X 4—5 n: stipe solid, stuffed, or hollow with a small cavity, tapering upward, somewhat bulbous, glabrous, firm, white or whitish, becoming pallid or brownish and striate with age or in drying, 5-10 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick.
Type IvOCai^ity: Deer lyake, Ontario, Canada.
Habitat: In clearings, growing in black vegetable mold or from buried wood or bark.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.