Agrocybe vermiflua (Peck) Watling 1977

Pholiota vermiflua (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 739. 1887
Agaricus vermifluus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31 : 34. 1879.
Pileus 2-12 cm. broad, hemispheric to campanulate or plane, white, cream-colored or massicot-yellow, retaining these colors in drying, dry or moist or in wet weather almost viscid,
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glabrous or fibrillose on the margin from the veil, at maturity often becoming reticulate-areolate at the center; context rather thick, often with a slightly disagreeable taste, pure-white; lamellae slightly uncinate to broadly adnate or sinuate, close, 3-10 mm. broad, white, then dark-brown, ochraceoustawny to buckthorn-brown in dried plants; veil white, membranous, forming a superior, often evanescent annulus, or adhering to the margin of the pileus; stipe central, equal or more often enlarged at the apex and tapering to a somewhat bulbous base, white or light-brown, fibrillose or glabrous, sometimes striate and pruinose at the apex, solid or with a small hollow, 5-12 cm. long, 3-15 mm. thick; spores ovoid or elliptic, more or less truncate at the apex, smooth, 10-14 X 6-8 /i; cystidia present, subglobose to pyriform with a tapering base, 35-45 X 20 /z, not prominent, sometimes quite rare.
Type locality: Ticonderoga, New York.
Habitat: On the ground in cultivated, grassy, or waste places; not in dense woods. Distribution: New York to North Carolina and westward to the Pacific coast.