Inocybe stellatospora (Peck) Massee 1904

Inocybe stellatospora (Peck) Massee, Ann. Bot. 18: 469. 1904
Agaricus {Hebeloma) stellatosporus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 57. 1874. Hebeloma stellastosporumSBx:.c.Sy\.^un%.S'. 798. 1887.
Pileus thin, convex to nearly plane, obtuse, dry, 2-5 cm. broad ; surface dry, densely covered with squarrose scales, dark-brown, becoming smoky-umber when dried; lamellae adnate then emargicate, close, broad, pallid at first, then brown, drying to smoky-cinereous; stipe equal, firm, solid, squamose to squarrose-scaly, subglabrescent, fibrillose at the apex, colored like the pileus, 4-6 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick; spores minute, usually irregularly tuberculate-angular, subglobose, or subrectangular, covered with indistinct nodules, 5-7 X 4-5 m; cystidia subventricose, sometimes capitate, rather stout, scattered on the sides of the lamellae, 65-75 X 15-20 /x; sterile cells cyst-like, on the edges of the lamellae.
Type locality : Croghan, New York. Habitat: On the ground in mixed woods. Distribi5tion : New York to Virginia.
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