Gymnopus carnosus (Curtis) Murrill 1916

Gymnopus carnosus (Curt.) Murrill
Agaricus carnosus Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 5: 71. 1777-87.
Agaricus maculatus Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 186. 1805. Not A. maculatus Schaeff. 1774.
Agaricus {Tricholoma) Limonium Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1; 43. 1873.
Collyhia maculata Qu61. Champ. Jtira Vosg. 330. 1873.
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or nearly plane, 5-10 cm. broad; surface even, glabrous, white or whitish, sometimes varied with reddish spots or stains: context white; lamellae narrow, crowded, adnexed, sometimes nearly or quite free, white or whitish: spores subglobose, 4-6 /z, sometimes showing a slight apiculus at one end: stipe striate, white, generally stout, firm, equal or slightly swollen in the middle, commonly narrowed at the base and praemorsely radicate, often curved at the base, rarely slightly thickened and blunt, 5~10 cm. long, 6-12
mm. thick.
Type locaijty: England.
Habitat: Oa the ground or on much decayed wood in woods. Distribution: Canada to North Carolina and west to Indiana; also in Europe. iLi^trsTRATioNS : Curt. FL Lond. fasc. 5:/. 71; Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 2: pi. 20; Mycologia 6: pi. 130; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 246.