Entoloma abortivum (Berk. & M. A. Curtis) Donk 1949

Pleuropus abortivus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Mycologia 3: 280
1911.
Agaricus abortivus Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 4: 289. 1859. ClUopilus abortivus Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 701. 1887.
Pileus of developed form fleshy, firm, convex to nearly plane or slightly depressed, usually entire on the margin, gregarious or cespitose, 5-10 cm. broad, the hymenophores very commonly represented by subglobose, aborted masses of cellular tissue 3-6 cm. in diameter; surface of developed form dry, silkytomentose, becoming glabrous, gray or grayish-brown; context white, with farinaceous odor and taste; lamellae adnate, crowded, thin, strongly decurrent, whitish or pale-grayish, changing to salmon-colored; spores angular, uniguttulate, salmoncolored, 8.5-10 X 6-7.5 m; stipe subequal, solid, sHghtly flocculose, longitudinally striate, concolorous or paler than the pileus, 3.5-8 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick.
Type locality: New England.
Habitat: On rich earth or much decayed wood in deciduous and coniferous woods.
Distribution : Canada to Alabama and west to Wisconsin ; also in Jalapa and the Tepeite