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Comprehensive Description

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Melanoleuca aromatica Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus spongy-fleshy, convex to expanded, obtuse or slightly umbonate, 4-10 cm. broad ; surface uniformly buff with a grayish tint, minutely innately floccose-tomentose, moist, smooth,not hygrophanous, margin thin, concolorous, incurved; context white, moist, thin, taste farinaceous, odor in dried specimens strongly aromatic and resembling that of Lactaria camphorata; lamellae adnexed, slightly emarginate, plane or becoming subventricose, subcrowded, of medium breadth, dingywhite, distinctly yellowish with age; spores ellipsoid^mooth, hyaline, 6-7X2.5-3.5 ju; stipe straight or curved at the base, cylindric above, much enlarged below, pallid, fibrillose, pruinose at the apex, densely mycelioid-tomentose at the base, spongy-stuffed to hollow, about 10 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick above, 2-3 cm. thick below.
Type collected on the ground among decaying leaves in woods in Cascade Glen, near Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 11, 1907, C. H. Kaufman.
Distribution: Known only fron the type locality.
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William Alphonso Murrill. 1914. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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