Melanoleuca arenicola

Melanoleuca arenicola Murrill, Mycologia 5: 214. 1913
Tricholoma arenicola Murrill, Mycologia 5: 223. 1913.
Pileus convex to subexpanded, umbonate, terraced, reaching 10-12 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, ferruginous, apparently viscid when fresh, bringing up adhering particles of sand; context mild to the taste, but with a strong, unpleasant odor; lamellae sinuate, ventricose, crowded, pallid, becoming discolored with subferruginous blotches; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, abundant, about 5-6X3-4 m," stipe long, slightly attenuate downward, fleshy, white, glabrous, except for a few fibrils where the margin of the pileus rested against it, reaching 10 cm. long and 2 cm. thick.
Type locality: Newport, Oregon. Habitat: In deep, pure sand in pine barrens. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.