Tricholoma glatfelteri (Murrill) Murrill 1914

Cortinellus glatfelteri Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, broadly convex, never fully expanded, wood-loving, reaching 6 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, white, clothed with dark-umbrinous, stellate, floccose fibrils, which are denser in certain spots and produce an illusive effect as though the surface were undulate; margin very thin, slightly paler; context thin, white, odor strong, unpleasant, taste sweet; lamellae adnate or slightly sinuate, pallid, not becoming darker with age, crowded, rather narrow; spores purewhite in mass, ellipsoid, densely and minutely nodulose, 6-7X3-4 /a; stipe somewhat eccentric at times, subequal, longitudinally striate, subconcolorous, minutely hispid to subglabrous, solid, firm, rather tough, about 4 cm. long, 5 mm. thick.
Type collected on a rotting trunk in St. Louis County, Missouri, July 10, 1902, N. M. Glatfeller
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' Distribution: Known only from the type locality.