In pastures. Stevenson.
Spores 7×4µ Cooke.
The H. niveus, H. virgineus, “Ivory Caps” as M.C. Cooke calls them, are pretty and plentiful in some sections. In the West Virginia mountains, along grass-grown road-sides, their purity and exquisite perfume attracted me in 1881. I have them and a few others to thank for seducing me into becoming a mycophagist. I think of them affectionately. I have seldom met with them since. They are found on lawns and in pastures and on grassy edges of woods, early in spring and late in autumn.
H. boreal´is Pk.—northern. Pileus thin, convex or expanded, smooth, moist, white, sometimes striatulate. Gills arcuate-decurrent, distant, white. Stem smooth, equal or tapering downward, stuffed, white.
Plant 2 in. high. Pileus 8–12 lines broad. Stem 1 line thick.
Ground in woods. Croghan and Copake. September and October.
The species is related to H. niveus but the pileus is not viscid. Peck, 26th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
Found at Mt. Gretna, Pa., October 20, 1898, ground in mixed woods. The cap is white, silky, smooth, not viscid. Stem likewise.
A neat species pleasant in every way.