Tricholomopsis radicata (Peck) Singer 1942

Melanoleuca radicata (Peck) Murrill
Tricholoma radicatum Peck, BulU N. Y. State Mus. 67: 22. 1903.
Pileus fleshy, firm, umbraculiform.or broadly convex, 5-8 cm. broad; surface pale-grayishbrown, darker and tinged with reddish-brown in the center, dry, minutely silky-fibrillose or obscurely fibrillose-squamulose, somewhat shining, cuticle separable, margin thin ; context white, edible, taste disagreeable, losing its unpleasant flavor on cooking ; lamellae emarginate, adnexed, having a decurrent tooth, close, thin, white; spores broadly ellipsoid, 5-6X4-5 p; stipe firm, nearly equal, distinctly radicate, slightly fibrillose, white, fistulose, 4-10 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick.
Type locality: North Elba, New York. Habitat: Under coniferous trees. Distribution: New York and Massachusetts.