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Hebeloma praecox Murrill, Mycologia 3 : 166. 1911
Pileus convex to expanded, slightly umbonate, gregarious, 4-5 cm. broad; surface dry, glabrous, opaque, smooth, ochraceous-isabelline ; margin incurved, entire or undulate, showing no trace of a veil; context white, sweet, odor pleasant; lamellae sinuate, arcuate, crowded, many times inserted, pallid when young, fulvous at maturity ; spores ovoid, smooth, pale-ochraceous, not conspicuously nucleate, 5-6 X 3-4 /x; stipe fleshy, brittle, subequal, stuffed to hollow, finely scabrous, sometimes rough, cremeous, 3-4 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick.
Type locality : New York Botanical Garden. Habitat: Among mosses on shady banks. Distribution: Southern New York.
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William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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