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Inocybe albodisca Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y
State Mus. 51: 290. 1898.
Pileus sHghtly fleshy, subconic, then campanulate-umbonate or expanded, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface dry, innately silky, the umbo sublubricous, obtuse, at first pale-lilacincarnate then grayish-drab ; margin at length rimose ; context whitish, unchangeable ; lamellae rather narrow, sinuate-adnexed, close, whitish at first then cinereous-brown, the edges minutely white-fimbriate; stipe equal above the subemarginate bulb, soUd, glabrous, even, pruinose at the apex, tinged with the same color as the pileus, fading, 3-5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick; spores sinuate-angular, subrectangular to subglobose in outline, obscurely subnodulose, 6-7 (-8) X 5-6 n; cystidia thick-walled, hyaline, subfusoidventricose, abundant on the sides and the edges of the lamellae, 45-60 X 15-18 m; sterile cells short, clavate, mixed with the cystidia on the
edges of the lamellae.
Type U)cal.ity: North Elba, New York.
Habitat: On the ground in hemlock or mixed woods.
Distribution: New England to Missouri and Washington.
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William Alphonso Murrill, Calvin Henry Kauffman, Lee Oras Overholts. 1924. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars), INOCYBE, PHOLIOTA. North American flora. vol 10(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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