Hygrophorus serotinus Peck 1907

Hygrophorus serotinus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 32
1907.
Pileus fleshy but thin, convex or nearly plane, often with the thin margin curved upward, gregarious or cespitose, 3-6 cm. broad; surface glabrous or with a few obscure, innate fibrils, reddish at the center, whitish on the margin: context white, the taste mild; lamellae thin, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, white, the interspaces sUghtly venose: spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 7.5 X 5 /x: stipe equal, stuffed or hollow, glabrous, whitish, 3-5 cm. long, 3-10 mm. thick.
Type locality: Near Boston, Massachusetts.
Habitat: Oak and pine woods.
Distribution: Massachusetts and southern New York.