Cortinarius erugatus (Weinm.) Fr. 1838

Cortinarius erugatus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 306. 1838
Pileus campanulate-convex, obtuse to broadly subumbonate, 3-6 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, pale-umber-cinnamon to grayish-brown with a rufous or fulvous umbo when moist, on drying becoming pale-reddish-gray with innate silky fibrils and silvery sheen, glabrous, even; margin at first incurved and entirely white-silky; context thin, splitting on the margin, this at length recurved, the odor and taste mild; lamellae adnate-emarginate, rather broad behind, tapering in front, close, thin, pallid-brownish at first, then alutaceous to ferruginous, the edge minutely erose-lacerate ; stipe variable in length and thickness, at first clavate-bulbous, then elongate, 4-7 cm. long (when elongate 8-10 cm.), 5-12 mm. thick, soft-spongy, stuffed, pallid and streaked with silky white fibrils, becoming sordid, not cingulate; spores ellipsoid, rather narrow, smooth, variable in length, 6-8.5 (rarely 9) X 4-4.5 m«
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On leaf -mold, in coniferous woods.
Distribution: Michigan and Maryland; also in Europe.