When dry the pileus is soft to the touch. Gregarious, fragile. Very similar to A. corrugis, and there is a variety corrugated. Stevenson.
Spores ellipsoid, 13–14×7–8µ K.; 5×12µ W.G.S.; 7×3–3.5µ Massee; 14×8µ Morgan.
New York, Peck, Rep. 23; West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, common, rich ground, June to October. McIlvaine.
A common and beautiful fungus, growing in patches on rich ground. It is decidedly prim. Its conical cap is regular as an extinguisher. It pays to gather it for flavoring other species. I have not seen the corrugated form mentioned by Fries. P. graciloides Pk. lacks the rosy-edged gills; gills are whitish.
Psathyrella graciloides.
P. graciloi´des Pk.—slender. Pileus thin, conical or bell-shaped, glabrous, hygrophanous, brown and striatulate when moist, whitish and subrugulose when dry. Lamellæ ascending, rather broad, subdistant, brown, becoming blackish-brown, the edge whitish. Stem long, straight, fragile, hollow, smooth, white. Spores blackish, elliptical, 15–16.5×8–8.5µ.
Plant gregarious, 4–6 in. high. Pileus 1 in. broad. Stem 1 line thick.
Ground in an old dooryard. Maryland. September.