Collybia dryophila, Stropharia semi-globata, and Naucoria semi-orbicularis are sometimes found growing with it. These species are delicious and harmless.
Lafayette B. Mendel in the Am. Jour. of Physiology, March, 1898, gives the following analysis:
Twenty freshly gathered specimens (from New Haven) weighed 9 grams, an average weight of 0.45 grams each. The analysis gave:
| Water | 74.96% |
| Total solids | 25.04 |
| Total nitrogen of dry substance | 5.97 |
| Ash of dry substance | 7.23 |
B. Tergini.
M. Wyn´nei B. and Br. Pileus 1–1½ in. broad, lilac-brown, tardily changing color, fleshy, convexo-plane, somewhat umbonate. Stem 2 in. long, 1½ line thick, tubed, furfuraceous, somewhat of the same color as the pileus. Gills adnexed, thick, distant, bright-colored, beautifully tinged with lilac; interstices even.
Inodorous. Gregarious or cespitose. The stem springs from a white mycelium, but is by no means strigose or tawny at the base. Quite distinct from M. fusco-purpureus. Fries.
Among leaves, twigs, etc. Stevenson.
Spores elliptical, 7–8×4µ Massee.