Rhodocybe noveboracensis (Peck) Singer 1951

Pleuropus noveboracensis (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus noveboracensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y, State Cab. 23: 89. 1872. Clitopilus noveboracensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 702. 1887.
Pileus thin, convex, becoming expanded or slightly depressed, gregarious or cespitose, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface rimose-areolate or concentrically rivulose, sometimes obscurely zonate, dingy-white, the disk often tinged with reddish-yellow or rusty hues when moist, margin often undulate, clothed when fresh and moist with a film of interwoven, webby, white fibrils; context having a farinaceous odor and a bitter, unpleasant taste; lamellae narrow, crowded, adnate to deeply decurrent, some of them forked, white, becoming dingy, tinged with yellow or flesh-color; spores globose, 4-5 /*; stipe equal, solid, concolorous, the mycelium white, often forming white, branching, root-like fibers, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick.
Type lyOCAiviTY: North Elba, New York.
Habitat: In woods and pastures.
Distribution: Maine to North Carolina and west to Ohio.