Agrocybe ombrophila (Weinm.) Konrad & Maubl. 1949

Pholiota ombrophila (Fries) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 737. 1887
Agaricus omhropHlus Fries, Hymen. Eur. 216. 1874. Pholiota washingtonensis Murrill, Mycologia 4: 259, 1912.
Pileus 3-10 cm, broad, campanulate-convex to nearly plane, didl-brown, close to woodbrown or Verona-brown, russet or light-cinnamon in herbarium specunens, at first with a few, white, floccose fibers or scales on the margin, soon glabrous, hygrophanous or subviscid when moist, even or faintly striate on the margin; context white or somewhat colored, with no odor and a mild taste; lamellae usually decurrent, medium-close or slightly distant, 4—6 mm. broad, clay-colored to rusty-brown, the edges whitecrenulate in fresh plants; veil forming a median or superior membranous, broad, conspicuous, often striate, persistent annulus; stipe central, equal or enlarged below, whitish or brownish, often dark below, stuffed or hollow, 4-8 cm. long, 4-15 mm. thick; spores cylindricelliptic or fusoid-elliptic, smooth, 11-15 X 5-7 fi; cystidia abundant, conspicuous, projecting 20-40 ^, flask-shaped.
Type LOCALITY : Europe.
Habitat: In grassy places in woods or wooded pastures.
Distribution: New York and westward to Washington; also in Europe.