Clitopilus subcinereus (Murrill) Murrill 1917

Pleuropus subcinereus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, convex, deeply umbilicate, gregarious or subcespitose, 2-3 cm. broad; surface
dry, smooth, minutely fibrillose, uniformly pale-cinereous, margin entire, concolorous, not
striate, inflexed; context with mild taste; lamellae long-decurrent, arcuate, distant, white to
dirty-pink, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate,
uniguttulate, rose-colored, 8-10 X 5-7 m; stipe often compressed, equal, smooth, subglabrous,
concolorous, 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type collected in soil at Redding, Connecticut, August 26, 1902, F. S. Earle 1235 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) .
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.