The gills are decurrent, thin, distant, acute, quite entire.
The stem is hollow, thin, equal, smooth. Spores 7×4µ. Found in pastures.
Hygrophorus sordidus. Pk.
The Dingy Hygrophorus. Edible.
Figure 176.—Hygrophorus sordidus.
Sordidus means a dirty white, or dingy, referring to the color of the caps, so made by adhering earth.
The pileus is broadly convex or nearly plane, glabrous, slightly viscid, white, but usually defiled by adhering dirt; the margin at first strongly involute, then spreading or reflexed; flesh firm when young, tough when old.
The gills are subdistant, adnate, or decurrent, white or creamy-white.