Inocybe hystrix (Fr.) P. Karst. 1879

Inocybe hystrix (Fries) P. Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat
Folk 32: 453. 1879.
Agaricus Hystrix Fries, Bpicr. Myc. 171. 1838.
Pileus ovoid to convex, subexpanded, obtuse or subumbonate, 2-5 (-8) cm. broad; surface
dry, clothed with dense, pointed or squarrose scales, varying wood-brown, seal-brown, and
umber; margin sometimes appressed-fibrillose ; context white; lamellae adnate, not broad,
close, pallid at first, then brown, the edges white-flocculose ; stipe equal, scarcely enlarged at
the base, peronate to near the apex by concolorous, squarrose scales, sometimes merely fibril-
lose-floccose-scaly, paler or subincamate beneath the scales, glabrous and pallid at the apex,
4-8 cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick; spores elliptic-ovoid, smooth, inequilateral, 9-13 (-15) X 5-5.5
(-7) fj,; cystidia thickwalled, varying sublanceolate-fusoid to ovoid-lanceolate above a slender
pedicel, subobtuse at the apex, with a long tapering neck, 60-90 X 12-16 (-20) /x.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On the ground in coniferous regions.
Distribution: New England and Canada, westward to Michigan; also in Europe.