Hebeloma velatum (Peck) Peck 1910

Hebeloma velatum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 139: 69
1910.
Hebeloma Colvini velatum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: 19. 1897.
Pileus convex, plane or slightly centrally depressed, obtuse or umbonate, gregarious or cespitose, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid when moist, glabrous or slightly silky from the veil, chestnut-colored, reddish-gray, pale-ochraceous, or grayish, margin silky or floccoselyscaly or appendiculate with the fragments of the veil; lamellae crowded, ventricose, adnexed, whitish, becoming pale-cinnamon, whitish and often crenulate on the edges; spores subellipsoid, 10-12 X 6-8 /<; stipe equal, hollow, silky-fibrillose, sometimes floccosely-squamulose toward the base, often more or less annulate, whitish, 3.5-6 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick; veil rupturing and disappearing with age or persisting on the margin and stipe, soft, cottony,
whitish or grayish.
Type locality: Rouses Point, Clinton County, New York. Habitat: In gravelly soil under cottonwood trees. Distribution: New York.