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The = pileus = is thin, convex or later expanded, of a watery appearance, nearly smooth or scurfy or slightly squamulose.— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
The description given by Peck is as follows: "Pileus thin, convex or expanded, subumbonate, dry, minutely squamulose-tomentose, white, sometimes pinkish on the margin; lamellæ rather broad, rounded behind, free, crowded, white then flesh colored; stem equal, solid, striate, slightly pubescent or subtomentose, white; spores subglobose, 7 µ in diameter, generally containing a large single nucleus."— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
The pileus is expanded, umbonate, thin except at the umbo, minutely floccose squamulose, no pinkish tinge noted; the flesh is white, but on the umbo changing to flesh color where wounded.— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
= Stem = cylindrical, even, twisted somewhat, white, striate and minutely squamulose like the pileus, but with coarser scales, especially toward the base, solid, flesh white.— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
It is dry, on the center finely tomentose to minutely squamulose, sometimes the scales splitting up into concentric rows around the cap.— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

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